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Joint Stock: From Colorless Company to Company of Color

The Joint Stock Theatre Company did not begin from an ideological viewpoint, but acquired a point of view through the development of their work. Aesthetics took precedence over politics. In this way, Joint Stock differed from many of the socialist theatre companies of the period. In 1977, Max StaffordClark, co-founder of the company, described Joint Stock as "a rather colorless company, in the sense that we take on the color of the material and of the writer we're working with" (Bradby 305). Colorless in a different sense, the company was all Caucasian. Gradually, over a period of years, Joint Stock transformed from a Caucasian company into a committed, multi-racial collective. This diversification made a significant impact on the content of their scripts, the actors' ethnicity, the audience composition, and the organizational and artistic policies.