The Moon Belongs to Everyone : Making Theatre with 7:84

Elizabeth MacLennan was one of the founder members of the theatre company "7:84", created in 1971 to bring plays in performance to working-class audiences.

The company was named after the proposition that 7% of the population in Britain owns 84% of the wealth.

Quite early in its history the company divided into two - one based in Scotland performing both in the villages of the Highlands and the towns and cities of the Lowlands, and the other based in England.

The author was one of the Scottish company's leading performers, and here she combines the story of the fortunes and productions of "7:84 Scotland" with an account of her own motivation and experiences as a professional actress who, after ten years' work in the London theatre and on television, threw in her lot with a touring company committed to radical theatre.