ex-head Tyndale School PLAYS THAT deal with immediate living people cannot be treated as dramatic abstracts or considered outside the context of the issues originally raised. Si is Winning neughton's play Tyndale affair, is no excepПон.
It raises important political and educational questions, but it is equally important to consider both the critical reactionstoitand the stages of development through which the play went before it ever reached public performance.
Fleet Street reaction has been varied. It is significant that some of those 193 612 most nemen BOU Tyndale teachers and their educational philosophy have of the play, one even going so far as to hint -nE Connaughion s supposed connections Socialist Workers Party:
Orbers attempt assassination on the grounds 'boring papers which in the past have SINGHIE Tyndale teachers and their ideas are obviously incensed that anythem and make a contribution to The Great Educational Debare that might not meet with the approva Rhodes Boyson or Shirley COMMITMENT Criticisin has, however. been made. and no doubt wil continue to be made, abour the writer's ahsence of commitment. 3t Blacks a clente defined political and educationn! focus although its booR lone worksin lavour of the Tyndale teachers. But it would be wrong to blame this on the playUTIVEL The Cattesioe Theatre programbelieves that our stages should be open to thie presentation of plays which deal with social and politi cal problemsof the moment' to say what they like since the board also adds the disclaimertbar he views that might be presented In the case of Sir is Winnin however, this statement of libera wanbines hides a multitude af diationesties Two major speeches in the original text that would have given a focus and revealed the author's been G insigniticance, and other parts have heen amended — ostensibly to produce a 'balanced' view Plays in general are not balanced.
All writers have a world view, a vision of society and the forces that shape it. No-one censors Macberh on the grounds of balance". The Nation al Theatre has prcented plays by Griffiths and Brencon, and is ai the moment seaging Bolt's play suggestion that these should be censored. But there a a great difference between plays winch THE T ARE A sergeant-major reacher controlling the cast and the audience as if they were anruly children political when the latter are heing National Theatre BLACK PAPER emasculated. Dolly with "left" issues and those which present a precise living debate of especially staged in a State insticution Like the Constughton's pla walker. the This is not to say that Shane unfortunately rotally HES CITE CELERIE BEELIN the Tyndaleteachers, lashownasa Black Paperite hunting for Reds moder the desk Excreme trad Theatre, "serpent-major" dressed in haracter af cane-wielding mortar board and gown who controlsthe audience as if it were a UNS ORRE CHOICH The way in which large bureaucrats can be manipulated to crush LUISAN IS CUCH ICIAL Thorially do all tally does not in the attitudes of middle class social democrats towards proability for working class children We are left to specalate on what Connaughton might have produced had he had enjoyed that artistic freedom that we are told writers do His play was attacked before it ceached the stage in two ways which exactly parallel cbe original First Dolly Walker campaigned against it, and secondly so did Can SeCtons DE Tac nations ire drama have become joined The stage drame and real togetber. But there life drama 15 not a liberal document. It lacks balance. Allthe other participants employment. The Tyndale teachcrs ate on the dole.
Sir is Winwing is at the Colestoc SEI. Tel: 01-928 2252.
= INE-OTHER-CEMA25 Tottenham Street, London W1. Tel: 637 9308 The detai Burned the bot do the any time el l ANd ZAPU (Thura Aug 15 and FrAug 18). complement to this book is Perr Anderson's article Ine Anono mies of Antonio Gramaci" in NER 100.
Another absence from the collection, as with Perry Ander son'i book Considerations on Western Mands, is a critical assessment ot one amportan of Western Marx ism' - The fact is Ena: such an arucie nas yer to so the light of day.
* Westero Marsisma: A Critical Reader. CLET Review. Published by New Left Rooks at £1.30.
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