This article explores legal consciousness in contemporary British theatre. It is concerned with the messages conveyed about law society as experienced through participant-observation and textual analysis. The interpretation of meaning will take place within framework collective dissent developed by Halliday Morgan. Using this framework, show that a reoccurring theme these performances, legitima...

IN the early 1910s, researchers at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, might have wondered why a colleague, Thomas Hunt Morgan (Figure 1), began shipping fruit flies from his Columbia University lab to the MBL each summer. After all, the Woods Hole currents supplied the MBL with a rich variety of marine organisms and Morgan, an avid practitioner of experimental ...