State of the Nation: British theatre since 1945
Michael Billington

 Faber & Faber, £25 (978-0-571-21034-3)
Church Times Bookshop £22.50

Andrew Lloyd Webber on the cover of Time magazine in 1988. From  the book, which looks at post-Second World War Britain from a theatrical perspective. Billington is a long-serving critic, and his book is a passionate defence of the dramatist as theatre's key figure.

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