Revolution of the heads: how we staged the Battle of the Beanfield by Billy Barrett

In 1985, 1,300 police clashed with 600 hippy travellers near Stonehenge " and closed a chapter of British counterculture. Theatre director Billy Barrett describes how he staged a zero-budget version of the encounter "There was a great deal of damage, destruction and violence," Nick Davies reflected while speaking to me last year, "which isn't terribly easy to stage without hurting people. You'd need a thousand extras…

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