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

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".