<i>Busmen:</i> Documentary and British Political Theatre in the 1930s

Watson, Don

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The Politics Of Busman's Stomach1

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“…directed by John Allan and scripted by the young communist Montagu Slater, the play mixed techniques drawn from American documentary theatre, Mass observation, Soviet realism and German expressionist ballet in its attempt to capture the pathological effects of modernity on individual health. 121 Statistics of increased industrial production were projected onto a stage screen, while spotlights picked out the figures of sick and broken busmen. The loudspeaker's narration of the successes of amalgamation and occupational acceleration was interrupted by the plaintive monologues of the drivers describing their nervous collapse.…”

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Busman’s stomach and the embodiment of modernity

Hayward

2016

Contemporary British History

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This paper examines the relationship between the gastric illness, ‘busman’s stomach’ and the Coronation bus strike of May 1937 in which 27,000 London busworkers walked out for better working conditions and a seven-and-half-hour day. It explores the way in which new patterns of somatisation, gastroenterological techniques, psychological theories and competing understandings of time worked together to create new political institutions and new forms of political action in inter-war Britain.

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confidence: 99%