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Seeing Is Believing.(The Pitmen Painters, Edward Albee's Occupant)(Theater review)
"Culture is for living, and art should be about taking part," Lee Hall writes in the introduction to his superb play "The Pitmen Painters" (well directed by Max Roberts, at the National's Cottesloe Theatre, in London). Set in hidebound prewar Britain, the play tells the rousing, poignant, and true story of a group of Northumbrian coal miners in the thirties and forties, whose Tuesday-night art class turned them into the celebrated Ashington Group, and whose influential 1936 exhibition was the first show entirely of working-class artists in British history.
At that time, more than a million British miners were working ten-hour shifts for two pounds and six ...
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