With the election looming, British theatre is putting political issues in the limelight
Political theatre is changing. Once, it was all agit-prop and state-of-the-nation plays. It campaigned or it caught the mood. Those forms are alive and well in 2015. Think of Jack Thorne lambasting local council cuts in Hope or Mike Bartlett or Philip Ridley lampooning property prices in Game or Radiant Vermin. Increasingly, though, political theatre is ignoring the issues " and it's all the more interesting for it.