ABSTRACT
Some of the most important developments in British theatre in the late sixties took place outside London. Of these, the work of Albert Hunt with students at Bradford College of Art was missed by most of the wider public because of its regional and educational context. But from the staging of the Russian Revolution in the streets of Bradford in 1967 through the innovative pastiche of John Ford’s Cuban Missile Crisis in 1970, it had perhaps the strongest influence on the future work of political theatre companies in the seventies. The Royal Court was the theatre that took the leap and produced the plays of Edward Bond when the critical climate was particularly hostile to the playwright who was to become one of Britain’s major writers. As John Arden made a transition in the late sixties significant to his work and also to the period as a whole, so did Edward Bond.
