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"We are thousands" is no ordinary play; this is epic theatre, a show involving nearly fifty performers and musicians, sag ed in a tent that seats 1,500 half the lengih" bochall pilch: amosher a rostah in the middle of a se heads; a thind a square at one end attached to a lomy hydraulic lifts. The 'action' took place gverywhere.
The pla: traces the developent of the working class fron the beginning of industrialisation in the eraly nineteenth century to the rise of the class strugale in the latte 1960s The central theme scial detrey and li ded bye ton of working class pobitics Inceptlo was. also, the political weakness o often there was a picture o he working class as a class on the revolutionary struggle but held back by their treacherous leaders, In reality, there have been very few opasions on which the widespread united struggle has taken major strikes in the 1930%, isolated rom the Swedish Communis Party, but the Tent Project was si ato ori in Swedish A major event collica nestory is tne roic pazybu by social democracy in the war and the question of Sweden's over the country.
"We are thousands" - Is the title of a play that toured Sweden in the summer. A four and a half hour history of the Swedish working class, it is an ambitious project and sounds, perhaps, something of an Perched on a bench, not understanding a word of the La member of the - watched a spectacie which, he says, many socialist actors in Britain fantasise He reports here on the Swedish response to Belt and Braces' rock music plays, and the experience of Vi aro "neutrality". The Swedish for 'tiger' is the same as to be sient" -hence the scene day with a tiger in blue ar ellow stripes (the Swedish n ional colours) who istka painted srain tarot utral* Sweden Into Norw of The Prime Minister, mcanwbile wrings his hands and wrestles with his conscience STRUCTURE mobilisations on Victnam in 196h and then a short speech about the UTUWOHAS BAHC BUC d expression of hope than a seriou perspective. Hur the swirling red and music expressed visually tha efebration of class strugale tf as the real strength of the whe how, an expression of hopes an dreams that are an essential po tevolutionary politics which lend themselves to imagin ative political theatre The trnek became the streets of Stockholm - trams, fights, cafes: a 30 Teot rose (hydraulically not divinely to claim the soul of a dead child tbe buddle of impoverished cap italists stand beneath storm; a group of warkers buil a two-storey House. Y0i-us gimmicks to titilate, That Lura io cheare what 1s the left has taken a novel SETERE class in struggle.
Thile bourgools theatre ago 5505 indivicual: rett peacors and demand et them that they alouch and mumble in the name of TACAEC CARIO RIMMC SIEL capture the essence of classes in struggle.
Brecht and Poscacor n the 1920k mounted the spectacles, and their performers reflecied it ASL CONNED DECO HI that word 10CT BS 1 WNS in th= guides the known. The four theatre comwas the arel the tent project: Thete bured the tent prajec meetings ere six full-time child minde TESCLTE IGLOE waff apart from the performers musiciens and technicians. Every a rain into the pantechnicon crucks, but effects Swedich pariica life mude thi Sonn are On 7 Octsher, a Tary councillor in Tameside, Men Ber ONa OvER19! the Arts Couneil granc so Span ner he stopped and an investiactually carried at the Counci The TUTCYCI• has bludeebned into condoning Mcand Roy Shaw, that it will support the company against any form o EEE sTEmMUOu The attack on Spamer tollows an asteropt by Red Ladder, anather lef wing thentre group.
trying to develop a mass cultural practice is typical of the society I WUCO WE OYE. sume of money spent on the are thousands' preoccupies itself and even in and Britain, culture Tor radicalisation. "art', socsalist cultural imperialism, WTen 201 0 Not tracitonal Tolk, working socialist weekly paper together to every lown there the commercial MRSSI L.NL.CEIL emerged particular features music a seif-confessed only for and resolution Arts 1 o il.
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stated IN WEILI WL IIFE North-West HicCarthyites wi The attack DL TENSSIVe The strugale on the LELIL "culrural" front is more advanced than in Britain. Dominated by HTT ENDORE entertainment from the USA especially became a focal point Ten yeaTs ago, lo sing in Swedish was a political act, whatever the lyrics. Consciously rejecting a kind of EBOIE and Esteners has grown up who ser their music, whether hard rock through a equivalent lo our ONTI New Musical Express, is a English.
the largesr "cultural There is Musikforum, a kind of loose-knit national organis ation of left-wing musicians and kinds ot cultura. communice who organise events, hold meet ings, print journals, all pursuing CHELISMESS strugale.
There are now two independent left-wing record production and шокні сотрело, шнекс з stranglchold crowni cun pet their records sold in the shops and supermarkets The radical theatre companie targely DUT OTTEH movemeal whercas in National Theatre, which caters •a select and elite In any subienc ts docso t anake aul sense the way I've done it...
The accack on North-West Spanner follows au altempt by Torkshire Ars so stop a grant to Red Ladder, asocber lett wing 1CП.L The atlack on small tkane grouns ano are trying to develop a mass cultural practice is typical of the society The massive sums of money spent on the National Theatre cater only for n sekcr and elste adence (lhoug ven on tbis front ibe NAF and arowe tow ardi a purge ly ley Are successfil elsewbere). The communsty and left wing groups cultural DELLIN monopoly af london's theatres They receive modest grants by compenson to by wie cut wiei YAT.
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