A personal history of the legendary 7:84 theatre company by one of its founding members A stirring account of the achievement and working methods of 7:84 as it went from strength to strength with shows like Trees in the Wind; The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil and Men Should Weep. It details the mounting social and economic pressures the company faced in Britain at a time when the country was turning towards the reactionary politics and consumerism of Thatcher's era. This is also a testimony to the author's own struggle as she ditches her successful West End career to become an actress and working mother spending seventeen years on the road with a radical theatre company.