Theatre with a Purpose
Watson, Don / McConachie, Bruce / Cochrane, Claire![Theatre with a Purpose](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/444/44403279/CHSBZCOP0344403279.jpg)
This study of British amateur theatre in the inter-war period examines five different but interwoven examples of the belief, common in theatrical and educational circles at the time, that amateur drama had a purpose beyond recreation.
Amateur theatre was at the height of its popularity as a cultural practice between the wars, so that by 1939 more British people had practical experience of putting on plays than at any time before or since.
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