Helping Themselves: The Left Wing Middle Classes in Theatre and the Arts

by Gregory Motton

A left wing book that challenges a broad range of basic middle class left wing assumptions, about art and politics; its broad range of subjects, that make up a cohesive whole, include; Freud, Althusser, Theatre, Arts Council Funding, Violence in Theatre, Modern Art, Censorship, The Royal Court and the modern Labour Party. A comprehensive attack on the left wing establishment by one of its most independent-minded critics, and author of the radical "A Working Class Alternative to Labour". Dame Beryl Bainbridge called it "a handbook for rebellion against the theatre and academic and political establishments".

228 pages, Paperback

First published December 7, 2009