Guerilla street theater /
edited by Henry Lesnick.
- New York, NY : Bard Books / Published by Avon, 1973.
- 442 pages : black and white illustrations ; 18 cm.
This book is a compilation of works from multiple authors and theater collectives.
Some introductory notes to guerilla/street theater / by Henry Lesnick -- Some notes in defense of combative theater / by Charles Brover -- Uconn SDS RAT (Radical Arts Troupe) -- Uconn GE varsity quiz -- Universty of Buffalo Christmas RAT -- People's street theater, N.Y., SDS -- A short preface to street theater - to be radical is to get to the root of things -- The big top -- Play for people's tribunal to try the war criminals -- Song of the mighty B-52 -- Radical theater at Princeton -- Build RAT and serve the people -- Reserve liberal training corps -- "Heyns" / Radical Arts Troupe of Berkeley SDS -- The turn of the screw / University of California, Davis campus, SDS RAT (Summer 1969) -- A tale of two cities / SDS RAT, Chicago Convention, 1969 -- Election rally -- Museum piece / Queens College -- Some dynamics and aesthetics in Pageant Players street theater, by Michael Brown -- The rulers (and Vietnam leaflet) -- King con (and king con leaflet) -- James Bond -- The laundromat play -- The war monster -- The dream play -- Corn flakes -- King play (and leaflet "the rich man is king in America") -- The spiritual history of the world up until the present time/ or God and Medicaid -- The presidio play -- Water play -- Hanukah tales -- Conspiracy play / Michael Brown, Pageant Players -- Notes on Chicano theater by, Luis Valdez -- The actos, by Luis Valdez -- La quinta temporada -- Los vendidos -- Vietnam campesino / El Teatro Campesino -- Introduction -- Eco-man / San Francisco Mime Troupe -- Johnny comes marching home -- Mississippi / Bread and Puppet Theater -- Dirge -- FBI -- Drill team -- The march -- The vulture -- Mace-in -- The models -- The mad bomber / Rapid Transit Guerilla Communications - Chicago -- Introduction -- One day at Nixon high school -- Lay the bosses off - not the workers -- The story of the three big pigs -- The night the elves defeated Santa's claws -- Puppet show / San Francisco Red Theater -- A note on guerilla theater -- The painter -- A classroom problem -- A piece of conventions -- Kites / The American Playground -- This is a cranky -- In the beginning -- How to build a cranky -- This is a flippy -- Laos flippy / San Francisco Women's Street Theater -- Introduction -- Ursula Underdog vs. the money grabbers, or tenant go round -- Daddy, may I? / Mass Transit -- The People's Park in Berkeley -- What is woman? A revolutionary soap-box opera / Burning City Theater -- WITCH: As modern guerilla fighter by Marilyn Salzman Webb -- Dewey canyon III / Liberation News Service. Dram buro report -- "Vote communist" -- Yoo-honey -- Middleman, 1939 / Worker's Theater, 1930's -- A note on mask-making.
"28 guerrilla and street theater pieces. A wide range of various kinds of guerrilla and street theatre--skits which effectively dramatize sophisticated political analysis, or starkly and simply reveal the brutal contradictions at the heart of capitalist society, traditional street similar to the plays put on in China after World War II, in Vietnam, in Delano, and a relatively new kind of theatre which is not immediately recognized as a performance and which may in fact develop into a non-theatrical event. Contributors include the People's Street Theater (SDS), the Queens College Guerrilla theater, the Burning City Theater, the Pageant Players, the Rapid Transit Guerrilla Communications, the American Playground, and the Radical Arts Troupe (SDS). Pieces include "Anti-Recruitment Skit," "the People's Park in Berkeley," "Nixon Machine," "Stop the War Machine Pageant," and "The Spiritual History of the World up Until the Present Time, or God and Medicaid."" -- From Amazon.
Some of the included plays are translated from Spanish.