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ACT’s The Pitmen Painters Joins Laughter with Meaty Intellectual Concerns
The Pitmen Painters is less about the art than it is about society: specifically, the rise of socialist England. The play includes the major players of both the artistic and societal dynamics of the time. These include an artist, an artist/academic, a patron, and five eponymous artist-miners, known as The Ashington Group. Continue reading ACT’s The Pitmen Painters Joins Laughter with Meaty Intellectual Concerns