Susanna Capon is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media Arts at Royal Holloway. She was previously a producer and director in the television industry and she is Course Director of the first vocational MA in Producing for Film and Television. The late David Bradby was Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London. His published books include Beckett: Waiting for Godot , The Theater of Michel Vinaver , Modern French Drama 1940-1990 and, with Annie Sparks, Mise en Scène: French Theatre Now

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsForeword by Richard EyreIntroduction by David Bradby and Susanna CaponPart One: Culture and the Socialist Vision1. Theatre,Theory and Politics: The Contribution of John McGrath, Maria DiCenzoPart Two: Early Work2. Get Out and Get On: Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun, Peter Thomson3. A Life Outside: John McGrath and the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, Ros Merkin4. 'Serjeant Musgrave Dances to a Different Tune': John McGrath's Adaptation of John Arden's Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, John Bull5. Finding the Right Places, Finding the Right Audiences: Topicality and Entertainment in the Work of England, Nadine HoldsworthPart Three: John McGrath and Scotland6. Border Warranty: John McGrath and Scotland, Randall Stevenson7. Celtic Centres, the Fringes and John McGrath, Ian Brown8. Bursting through the hoop and dancing on the edge of the seediness': Five Scottish Playwrights Talk about John McGrath, Ian BrownPart Four: Case Studies9. The Television Adaptation of The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil, Robin Nelson10. A Practical Realism: McGrath, Brecht, Lukacs and Blood Red Roses, Stephen Lacey11. A Good Night In: The Long Roads, Robert Dawson-Scott12. Three One-Woman Epics: The Political Performer, Olga TaxidouPart Five: Working with John 13. Working with John-Interviews by Susanna Capon:Pamela HowardBill PatersonTroy Kennedy MartinJack GoldJohn BettJenny TiramaniElizabeth MacLennanWorks by John McGrathNotesIndex

‘…the editors and publishers are to be congratulated for their rich and eclectic volume that allows academics, journalists, playwrights, actors and singers, designers and producers to coexist, challenge and unsettle each other within a single volume.’ (Theatre Research International: 31.2. 2006)‘Handsomely produced and illustrated, both volumes are an eloquent monument to one of British twentieth-century theatre’s most important cultural activists.’ (Theatre Research International: 31.2. 2006)