report new statistics abour 2,000 immigrants entering Britain. choice of headlines, both of which are grants flooding in' reads one; the other, "Immigrant rate down', is nearer the truth. Which will they choose, and why? Even The answer is self-evident. As the play *The best barbed wire is that which grows inside people's heads.
Weakness * Thousands of immi There's a certain virtue in this brutal. no-nonsense style, but the possibilities for humour and drama are lost under the suffocating blanket of facts which sur round each liule gem of this kind. The audience is reduced to a passive receptacle for the theory which the theatre group is dishing out like medicine. Swallow it and -vou feel better. There is little oppor tunity for the audience to react, and as Brecht said, to think feelings and feel
ine necessity and tional conclusions were fully in line RED WEEKLY 11! r 1976. 9 was simultaneously a leader of both