Houman Barekat

From Anthony Trollope to Meryl Streep: the theatre of politics on stage and screen

A review of A State of Play, by Steven Fielding. A well researched, judiciously selective and fastidiously politically correct history of political productions

Carol White in Jeremy Sandford’s BBC play Cathy Come Home. Watched by 12 million, the drama’s hard-hitting depiction of homelessness and unemployment made a huge impact on its shocked audience in 1966 [Getty Images/Shutterstock/Alamy/iStock]
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  • A State of Play

    Steven Fielding

    Bloomsbury, pp. 312

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