Day: 1 April 2024

This excellent book fills a gap that has long existed in academic study of British grass roots arts: a conspectus that records the history of the community arts movement in the UK, locates it in the communities and the times when it was made, and explores its significance as a democratising force in British culture.

The world’s first journal of applied theatre first published these articles. How do we know? John O’Toole its editor tells us. It was probably the first because no one else was using the term ‘applied theatre’ as the millennium turned, but according to O’Toole, it soon caught on – one of those concepts whose time had come.