The Forest and the Field

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A polemical thinking-through of the whole concept of theatre as a ‘space’, and a politically motivated exploration of how, and where, that theatrical space meets the real world that surrounds and suffuses it.

Artist / Author	Chris Goode
Publisher	Oberon books
ISBN	9781849434751
Reference	P3257
Date	2015
Type	Publication

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