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Red Weekly No. 174, 1976 · p. 8 of the scan · 432 words

The scan: rw-no174-nov-11-1976.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 8 of the scan

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In the discussion afterwards, other members of the audience criticised the Dav sack or characterisation theatre group replied: But we're not portraying individuals, we're showing the social forces which shape society. Individuals live and die, but the social forces conunue.

They are scornful of the tradition of agitprop in this country, with its simplistic caricatures of bosses and workers making the problem into a personal, moral issue rather than one of social forces. Their play is packed with facts and theory, and they are adamant about not underestimating the capacity of working class dualences But there is a danger of elevating this into a principle without taking account of the process of communication. memoets or a prccommantis interectua audience complained that it was abstract. I just couldn't absorb it all."

The critic of London's Time Out magazine believes that it was all done 'in the spirit of Brecht. In tact, Brecht only warned against identifying with charac-

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