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The artistic achievements of theatre for the young are impressive. At best, it engages both young minds and — in different ways — adult ones. Ulterior motives (other than artistic) among its creators and practitioners, if allowed free rein, may distort the impact and impair the quality of the artefact. As an aesthetic phenomenon, YPT evinces a concern of all good art to encapsulate some truth about the world. Not ‘socialist truth’ or something of the kind, but the truth that does not need validation outside the living performance, the truth which wins the endorsement of our imaginations, signalling that a ‘possible world’ has come into being.
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8. Postscript
Neil Postman, The Disappearance of Childhood (London: W. H. Allen, 1982) pp. 93–4.
David Wood, letter to Alan England, 12 July 1988.
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England, A. (1990). Postscript. In: Theatre for the Young. Modern Dramatists. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20540-0_8
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