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Spectacles and Scenarios: A Dramaturgy of Radical Activity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2021

Extract

[A constitutional republic] cannot forever withstand continual carnival on the streets of its cities and the campuses of the nation. Unless sage debate replaces the belligerent strutting now used so extensively, reason will be consumed and the death of logic will surely follow.

Vice President Agnew, Honolulu Address to the Young Presidents Organization, May 2, 1969

There is so much upheaval in the world, it's more theatrical than the theatre. The theatre is in a state of unrest and we're all trying to find out what its function is.

Mildred Dunnock, N.Y. Times, January 18, 1969

Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist wholly with anything which was.

Henry David Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience”

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 1969 The Drama Review

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