An exhibition
featuring community, experimental, Black, Asian, lesbian, gay, women’s,
disabled, political, Theatre-in-Education, agit-prop, physical, visual,
performance art, vernacular drama, new writing, satirical and many other
theatre companies; championing a generation of artists whose work has
influenced and shaped present day British theatre.
The exhibition brings together a range of material from the period, including beautiful silk-screened posters for Welfare State International, a rare poster from Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven at the Arts Lab in 1969, and a printed ‘make-it-yourself’ model of Inter-Action’s Fun Art Bus.
There are
also a wealth of objects from the poignant to the bizarre: the matchstick
violin smuggled by Stirabout theatre company out of one of the prisons where
they performed, nautical props and the ‘pissing jug’ ceremoniously presented to
The Phantom Captain when they performed in Tilburg, Holland. All these
along with original theatre designs for
Monstrous Regiment’s Scum, original drawings from Action Space, creators of
inflatable cushions and play spaces, now copied all over as bouncy castles,
rare playscript editions from small presses, records from Sadista Sisters and
Siren and cyclostyled low tech hand-outs that vividly evoke the times, along
with a wealth of badges from campaigns from ‘Support the Miners’ to ‘VAT
is a Pain in the Arts’ along with those celebrating
individual companies from Spare Tyre to Joint Stock.The exhibition brings together a range of material from the period, including beautiful silk-screened posters for Welfare State International, a rare poster from Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven at the Arts Lab in 1969, and a printed ‘make-it-yourself’ model of Inter-Action’s Fun Art Bus.
10th February- 30th April
Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre,
Holborn Library,
32-38 Theobalds Rd,
London WC1X 8PA
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