Impossible Plays

Bill Bryden's Cottesloe Company which flourished at Peter Hall's National Theatre was the English theatre's only true ensemble of the last thirty or so years. <i>Impossible Plays</i> tells<b> the story of the company and the many actors and musicians connected to it</b>.<br/><br/>Co-written by Keith Dewhurst author of eight plays for the group and Jack Shepherd a founder-actor it explains the ideas behind the company's work and how the work was staged and provides an idiosyncratic lively and deeply personal take on the company.<br/><br/>The search was always to find a popular theatre a form of theatre that would draw into it people from all backgrounds not just the cultured and the educated.<br/><br/>Beginning with a Royal Court Theatre Sunday night performance in 1970 the story of one company's aim to create a popular theatre form includes such milestone productions as <i>The Mystery </i>cycle of plays and <i>Lark Rise to Candleford.</i> With <b>photographs</b> by John Haynes Michael Mayhew and Nobby Clark <i>Impossible Plays </i>is a glorious and timely tribute to one of theatre's most innovative companies.