Steel puts the political actors — David Hart, coal boss Iain McGregor and Conservative minister Peter Walker — on stage beside the coal-caked flesh of the miners. In this way the conflict is reduced to its pure essence: that between rich political people and male, manual workers whose traditions of class solidarity seemed as alien to the politicos then as they will do to most young people who watch this play now... Paul Mason, Channel 4s Economics Editor, on Wonderland
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 11:31:36 +0000