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Michael Shane Boyle ·

YOU? · · 2017 · Open Access · · DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0040557416000661 · OA: W3147086004

That theatre is a place of work seems beyond debate. But what kind of workplace is it? And under what conditions does theatre conform to a capitalist production process? At first glance these questions may seem obviously, even inextricably, linked; but investigating theatre as somewhere people go to work is a far different enterprise than specifying its economic connection to capital.