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Angela Rosado, Art and Social Change; Week 6


1) Guerrilla Theater 143.
Summary: This person argues for theater for social change first focusing on the state of society and  then elaborates on the aspects of theater has not been unable to make the changes it needs to, and its need for the product to be a significant moral force. The work needs to communicate to the audience the words that everyone knows but no one was saying—the truth. The job then becomes to drop everything that instills that toxic middle-class America life and live against that; "a full time job of a full time guerrilla."

The so-called "prescription for a theatre company that is meaningful:"
  •  Prepare to go out of business at any moment.
  • Prepare to give up your house, your theatre or your troupe, and even your ideas if something more essential comes along.
  • Travel light and keep in shape.
  • Ideas like property cannot be private.
  • Nothing is sacred – only sometimes tenderness.



2) Call to the Artists of Latin America 200.
Summary: All Latinx artists wanting of change need to contribute their ideas and values to be passed down and shape the society we live in and are creating. There is no separation between the revolutionary ideas and needs of the artist and their art; their awareness of the consequences of their voice should fuel the art.


  • Art, in terms of politics, is not neutral and should never be considered as such.
  • The Latinx Artist should "denounce, reject, and destroy all forms of imperialist penetration"
  • Denounce ideas of culture being an alienating weapon
  • Dismantle ideas that art belongs to and should serve/benefit bourgeois society
  • Art is for the artist—their expression, their identity, their ideas, their journey

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