The following thesis is a discussion of the radical activist Abbie Hoffman\u27s theatrical work to revolutionize the United States. What the author does is explain the historical uniqueness of Hoffman\u27s theatrical techniques as tools for social change. What made Abbie Hoffman such a unique character from that already bizarre and devastating time in the United States known as The Sixties was his ability to infuse pot with politics, fun with social activism and cultural change with his contemporary means of communication. He was able to excite and activate a whole generation of people who would otherwise drop out of society rather than become involved by walking a thin line between being a revolutionary and being a clown. The thesis begins...
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Protagoras, Plato recounted, taught how to harness word and action and use them to make an effective...
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Activists and artists are consciously bringing theatre to the forefront of contemporary protest inte...
The dominant narrative of the Living Theatre, an anarchist-pacifist, activist performance group, sit...
Theatre in the twenty-first century has been largely based on political and social reform, mirroring...
Agit prop or agitational propaganda, as the very term implies, seeks to deliberately change people’s...
This dissertation explores historical notions of resistance alongside contemporary playful forms of ...
During the culture wars in the United States surveillance of representations of the American citizen...
This paper focuses on the theoretical and scholarly influences upon Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin in...
The rhetorical study of violence tends to examine violence within larger generic boundaries such as ...
This thesis traces how the artistry of the Broadway musical reflects the condition of the American a...
The 1968 Democratic National Convention has long been remembered for the televised images of police ...
This study places emphasis on the work of The San Francisco Mime Troupe, The Living Theatre, and The...
Protagoras, Plato recounted, taught how to harness word and action and use them to make an effective...
textIn 1967 and 1968, members of the Youth International Party, also known as Yippies, created sever...
Rachel Corrie was a young American woman who died at the age of twenty-three in Gaza in 2003. She wa...
This article explores the battles over ‘Americanism’ and ‘un-Americanism’ that swirled around the Pe...
Activists and artists are consciously bringing theatre to the forefront of contemporary protest inte...
The dominant narrative of the Living Theatre, an anarchist-pacifist, activist performance group, sit...
Theatre in the twenty-first century has been largely based on political and social reform, mirroring...
Agit prop or agitational propaganda, as the very term implies, seeks to deliberately change people’s...
This dissertation explores historical notions of resistance alongside contemporary playful forms of ...
During the culture wars in the United States surveillance of representations of the American citizen...