Staging the revolution: Guerrilla theater as a countercultural practice, 1965-68

Imagine Nation: The American Counterculture of the 1960's and 70's

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 71-97

  Doyle, Michael William ^a  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203615171-11     Document Type: Chapter

References (31)

1. Harry Johanesen, “Park Show Canceled; ‘Offensive,’” San Francisco Examiner [Exam.], 5 August 1965,1,16
2. Donald Warman, “Cops Upstage Mimers in the Park,” San Francisco Chronicle [Chron.], 8 August 1965, 1A, 2B
3. Michael Fallon, “Park Mime Star Arrested; Banned Show Goes On,” Examy 8 August 1965, IB
4. Ralph J. Gleason, “On the Town” column, “Maybe Were Really in Trouble,” Chron., 9 August 1965, 47.
5. Henry Lesnick, ed., Guerrilla Street Theater (New York: Bard/Avon, 1973)
6. Karen Taylor Malpede, ed., People’s Theatre in Amerika (New York: Drama Book Specialists, 1973)
7. James Schevill, Break Out! In Search of New Theatrical Environments (Chicago: Swallow Press, 1973)
8. John Weisman, Guerrilla Theater: Scenarios for Revolution (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1973).
9. Richard Schechner, “Guerrilla Theatre: May 1970,” The Drama Review 14, no. 3 [T47] (1970): 163-68.
10. Dan Georgakas, “Political Theater of 1960s-1980s,” in Encyclopedia of the American Left, 2d ed., ed. Mari Jo Buhle et al. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 614-16.
11. Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World, trans. Helene Iswolsky (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press [1968]).
12. J. Milton Yinger, Countercultures: The Promise and Peril of a World Turned Upside Down (New York: Free Press, 1982).
13. Richard F. Shepard, “Mr. Interlocuter, Updated, Arrives; ‘Minstrel Show’ from Coast Slashes at Racial Hypocrisy,” New York Times, 22 October 1966, sec. 1, p. 36.
14. Ralph Larken and Daniel Foss: “The youth movement was not merely against racism, the war or school administrations, but against the totality of bourgeois relations [emphasis theirs]. It is easy to forget that many took drugs… to experience a reality that superseded and opposed bourgeois reality.” In Ralph Larkin and Daniel Foss, “Lexicon of Folk-Etymology,” 360-377
15. Ron Chepesiuk, Sixties Radicals, Then and Now: Candid Conversations with Those Who Shaped the Era (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1995), 118-32
16. Marie Louise Berneri, “Utopias of the English Revolution: Winstanley, The Law of Freedom,” in her book Journey through Utopia (London: Routledge &. Kegan Paul, 1950), 143-73
17. Stephen A. O. Golden, “What Is a Hippie? A Hippie Tells,” New York Times, 22 August 1967, sec. 1, p. 26.
18. Clint Reilly, “Editorial: The New Community,” Middle Class Standard 1, no. 1 (16 July 1967): 1.
19. David E. Smith and John Luce, “The New Community,” part II of Love Needs Care: A History of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic and Its Pioneer Role in Treating Drug-Abuse Problems (Boston: Little, Brown, 1971), 73-148
20. Charles Perry, The Haight-Ashbury: A History (New York: Rolling Stone/Random House, 1984), 131.
21. Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (New York: Bantam Books, 1968), especially 241-53.
22. Thomas King Forcade, “Abbie Hoffman on Media,” in The Underground Reader, ed. Mel Howard and Thomas King Forcade (New York: New American Library, 1972), 68-72
23. Marty Jezer, Abbie Hoffman, American Rebel (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1992)
24. Jack Hoffman and Daniel Simon, Run, Run, Run: The Lives of Abbie Hoffman (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1994)
25. Jonah Raskin, For the Hell of It: The Life and Times of Abbie Hoffman (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996)
26. Larry Sloman, Steal This Dream: Abbie Hoffman and the Countercultural Revolution in America (New York: Doubleday, 1998)
27. Howard Smith, “Scenes” column, Village Voice, 3 August 1967,11
28. Leticia Kent, “Evangelizing Wall Street: Square Sales &. Odd Lots,” Village Voice, 31 August 1967, 3
29. John Kifner, “Hippies Shower $1 Bills on Stock Exchange Floor,” New York Times, 25 August 1967, sec. 1, p. 23
30. A. P. Cohen, The Symbolic Construction of Community (New York: Tavistock Publications and Ellis Horwood, in association with Methuen, 1985)
31. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, rev. ed. (London and New York: Verso, 1991).