Open Book Publishers<p>📢<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/OutNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OutNow</span></a> in <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/OA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OA</span></a>: 'After the <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Miners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Miners</span></a>’ Strike: <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/A39" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>A39</span></a> and <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Cornish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cornish</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Political" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Political</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Theatre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Theatre</span></a> versus <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Thatcher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thatcher</span></a>’s <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Britain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Britain</span></a>: Volume 1', by Paul Farmer</p><p>In this rich memoir, the first of two volumes, Paul Farmer traces the story of <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/A39" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>A39</span></a>, the <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Cornish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cornish</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/political" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>political</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/theatre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theatre</span></a> group he co-founded and ran from the mid-1980s to the early <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/1990s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>1990s</span></a>. </p><p>Farmer offers a unique insight into <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/A39" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>A39</span></a>’s creation, operation, and <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/artistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>artistic</span></a> practice during a period of convulsive <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/political" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>political</span></a> and social change.</p><p>The reader is plunged into the national <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/miners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>miners</span></a>’ strike and the collapse of <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Cornish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cornish</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/tin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tin</span></a> mining, the impact of <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Thatcherism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thatcherism</span></a> and ‘<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Reaganomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reaganomics</span></a>’, and the experience of touring <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a> on the brink of reunification, alongside the influence on <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/A39" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>A39</span></a> of writers <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/BertoltBrecht" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BertoltBrecht</span></a>, <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/JohnMcGrath" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnMcGrath</span></a> and <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/KeithJohnstone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KeithJohnstone</span></a>. </p><p>Read and download for free and/or purchase in paperback and hardback editions at <a href="https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0329" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0329</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>