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Why the Olympic opening ceremony was a triumph of agitprop theatre by Mark Lawson

You thought it was innocent family entertainment? Wrong. Danny Boyle's political production would have made Joan Littlewood and the leftwing Theatre Workshop proudDuring the era of agitprop theatre in the 1960s and 70s, when politically committed companies toured the UK, there was usually a rule that the show would not go on if there was a risk of having more people on stage than in the audience. And even with the ha…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:17AM on July 31, 2012

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