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London's Unity Theatre was at the heart of a militant national theatre movement
in the 1930s. It made its name with Waiting for Lefty and was the first
theatre to stage Brecht play in Britain. Unity was at the height of its reputation
following the appearance of Paul Robeson and the enormous success of Babes
in the Wood, its political pantomime about hte Munich crisis. Colin Chambers
charts the rise and fall of this theatre throughout its life as both a professional
and an amateur theatre up until it was destroyed by fire in the 1970s.