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Guerrilla Theater
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GUERRILLA THEATRE
Introduction
Phases/Groups
Other Groups
The Diggers
- The second phase of Guerrilla Theatre that began when 20 members of the original San Francisco Mime Troupe left
- Took guerilla theatre from parks to the streets
- little to no professional training or experience in drama
- Demographics were primarily middle class white teens/youth (twenties)
- R.G. Davis criticized them for being ineffective
- El Teatro Campesino
- “Theatre of peasants” / “Theatre of farmworkers”
- Performed in fields to push for better pay and living conditions for farm workers
- Billionaires for wealthcare
- Against Obamacare
- Made scenes by using limo, being dressed in tuxedos, and picket signs
- What is Guerrilla Theater?
- a type of performance that contains nudity, profanity, and taboo subjects in order to protest the government
- Where did the term come from?
- Peter Berg suggested the term as a title for R.G. Davis' essay on the theater style
- Why was Guerrilla theater created?
- to protest US involvement in Vietnam
The Yippies
- “Youth International Party”
- Militant style disruptions aimed to attract maximum attention
- Examples of demonstrations include:
- Throwing money into the New York Stock Exchange trading pit
- Black Flower day” was demonstration in aims to push for cleaner air quality
- violent response with police lead to a national trial
History
Significance
- "Exemplify change as a group"-R.G. Davis
- Directly growing from commedia del arte, guerrilla theater was a street style of theater
- It became popular in the 1960's, featured political ideas and propaganda
- Not an original idea
- Provokes change by bringing social issues to the forefront
- Highlights social and political inequities and attempts to inspire political activism
- Informs and mobilizes the people which in turn fuels grassroots movements
- For example, Guerrilla theater was used as a protest demonstration by the anti-war organization Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
Current Use Of Guerrilla Theater
History Cont.
- Currently, Guerrilla theater is primarily used by many political activist groups whom constantly adopt methods of guerrilla theater in their performances to raise awareness of past and present socio-political issues
- In 1995, one of the main guerrilla performance groups that continued to use the term guerrilla theater were the Guerrilla Girls, whose main goal was to emphasize the lack of female artists in famous art galleries and museums.
- Guerrilla Theater continues to have a modern impact especially in plays centered around Anti-War Activism, Immigration Reform, and Labor Rights.
- Davis met and befriended political activists such as Saul Landau and Nina Serrano
- This form of theater was not intended to be violent, it was a cultural revolt
- Performers relied on the audience's reactions, police often were present
- NO subject was considered 'off limits'
- This was the first of various phases
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