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Guerrilla Theatre

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2021

R. G. Davis
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Art is almost always harmless and beneficent; it does not seek to be anything else but an illusion. Save in the case of a few people who are, one might say, obsessed by art, it never dares to make any attacks on the realm of reality.

Freud defines theatre in America, and Che Guevara tells us what to do about it:

The guerrilla fighter needs full help from the people of the area…. From the very beginning of the struggle he has the intention of destroying an unjust order and therefore an intention, more or less hidden, to replace the old with something new.

This society, our society—America, U.S.A.—is chock-full o'ennui. Distracted by superficial values, and without a sense of humanness, we let machines rule; it is easier to kill from a B-52 than to choke every Viet Cong.

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Research Article
Information
Tulane Drama Review , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , Summer 1966 , pp. 130 - 136
Copyright
Copyright © The Tulane Drama Review 1966

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References

1 The title for this kind of theatre was suggested by Peter Berg, author and member of the S. F. Mime Troupe.

2 Freud, Sigmund, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (New York: W. W. Norton Co., Inc., 1933), p. 207.Google Scholar

3 Guevara, Che, Guerrilla Warfare (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1961), p. 43.Google Scholar

4 Author's asterisks—Editor's note