Strategies of political theatre : a theoretical overview. - 'Reflectionist' strategy : 'kitchen sink' realism in Arnold Wesker's Roots (1959). - 'Interventionist' strategy : poetic politics in John Arden's Serjeant Musgrave's Dance (1959). - Dialectics of comedgy : Trevor Griffith's Comedians (1975). - Appropriating middle-class comedy : Howard Barker's Stripwell. - Staging the future : Howard Breton's The Churchill Play (1974). - Agit-prop revisited : John McGrath's The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black, Black Oil (1973). - Brecht revisited : David Hare's Fanshen (1975) Rewriting Shakespeare : Edward Bond's Lear (1971). - Stragegy of play : Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine (1979)