Adelphi Players

<p>Cecil Davies' <em>The Adelphi Players: The Theatre of Persons</em> represents a uniquely interesting contribution to our understanding of touring British theatre in the mid-twentieth-century post-war period. This book will interest everyone - whether student academic or general reader - who wants to know more about issues concerning the recent history of British theatre. In their values and aims the Adelphi Players pre-empted many of the post-war developments that we associate with the non-commercial fringe and community theatre movement. In Richard Heron Ward founder of the Adelphi-Players we encounter a dramatist novelist essayist and poet who has been unusually neglected in terms of our appreciation of the English literature of the broad left in the 1930s `40s and `50s.<br><em>The Adelphi Players</em> has been edited by Peter Billingham who has also provided an introduction placing Ward and the Adelphi players in the wider social cultural and ideological context.</p>