"...a clearly written and very valuable introduction to a style of radical theatre which still has a lot to teach. ...Maria DiCenzo's welcome study may then be seen as an especially timely reminder of the power of theatre ti inject subversive vitality into the heart of the body politic." Baz Kershaw, Letters in Canada

• List of illustrations; Foreword John McGrath; Acknowledgements; Part I. Methodology and Context: 1. Introduction; producing theatre histories; 2. Creating a context: alternative theatre in the seventies and eighties; Part II. A Case Study of 7:84 (Scotland): 3. Anatomy of a popular political theatre company; 4. Making socialist theatre: the theory; 5. From theory to practice: the plays; Afterword; Appendix: 7:84 (Scotland) productions, 1973–1988; Bibliography; Index.

"...a clearly written and very valuable introduction to a style of radical theatre which still has a lot to teach. ...Maria DiCenzo's welcome study may then be seen as an especially timely reminder of the power of theatre ti inject subversive vitality into the heart of the body politic." Baz Kershaw, Letters in Canada

• List of illustrations; Foreword John McGrath; Acknowledgements; Part I. Methodology and Context: 1. Introduction; producing theatre histories; 2. Creating a context: alternative theatre in the seventies and eighties; Part II. A Case Study of 7:84 (Scotland): 3. Anatomy of a popular political theatre company; 4. Making socialist theatre: the theory; 5. From theory to practice: the plays; Afterword; Appendix: 7:84 (Scotland) productions, 1973–1988; Bibliography; Index.

"...a clearly written and very valuable introduction to a style of radical theatre which still has a lot to teach. ...Maria DiCenzo's welcome study may then be seen as an especially timely reminder of the power of theatre ti inject subversive vitality into the heart of the body politic." Baz Kershaw, Letters in Canada

• List of illustrations; Foreword John McGrath; Acknowledgements; Part I. Methodology and Context: 1. Introduction; producing theatre histories; 2. Creating a context: alternative theatre in the seventies and eighties; Part II. A Case Study of 7:84 (Scotland): 3. Anatomy of a popular political theatre company; 4. Making socialist theatre: the theory; 5. From theory to practice: the plays; Afterword; Appendix: 7:84 (Scotland) productions, 1973–1988; Bibliography; Index.