Since the 1950s, many groups of working-class and middle-class writers, novelists, and playwrights have lobbied for their views and policies to be staged; they became visible around this time and were coined as the "Angry Young Men". Two of the most distinctive members of the Angry Young Men were Sir Kingsley Amis (who wrote Lucky Jim) and John Osbourne (who wrote Look Back In Anger). After the Theaters Act of 1968 abolished stage censorship, some of the plays that took to the stage were highly political, brutally direct and highly controversial. People were writing about topics that had been ignored by the government and this had been "bubbling up in British society for some time", to the point that, when stage censorship was removed, controversial new plays burst onto the scene every decade. such as Saved (originally performed before censorship in 1965), Blasted (1995), Cloud Nine (1979) and Shopping and Fucking (1996). When the Theater Act abolished censorship, British issues invaded the stage in a very controversial way; each play addressed a different issue in Thatcher's Britain or, generally speaking, Britain's issues or history. I'm going to talk about one of the plays which dealt with society in the Victorian era (in which a British family lives in Africa) and then the difference between that society and the same characters, but in 1979; or what the “modern day” would have been when the play came out. I am going to talk about the ideologies and themes of the play Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill. Before the play began, Churchill wrote a note called "Casting and Doubling" about what type of person is needed to play what type of character. For example, she says: “It is essential that Jos... in the middle of the newspaper... can bring these ideologies and political issues to the stage; especially after the lifting of censorship. Churchill, like other politically fueled writers, clearly had a bitter taste in his mouth about Thatcher and the way she and the Conservative Party were running Britain. She even wrote Top Girls, which presented a dual perspective on Margaret Thatcher's rise to power. Politics had begun to boil over as a larger dividing line began to form between social classes. There were gaps between the opinions of older generations and those of young people. Cultures were beginning to divide because of racism in politics. Billington was right that people did not think these barriers and divisions were necessary and they took the necessary steps to destroy these barriers; starting with showing people how bad society was at the time; use the theater