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All theatre is political. This assertion is the best way I know into the complicated matter of theatre’s relationship with social change.
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Leonard, R.H. (2018). Social Imaginaries and Theatre. In: Etheridge Woodson, S., Underiner, T. (eds) Theatre, Performance and Change. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65828-5_22
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