[An audio clip from the film Les
Diggers de San Francisco]
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This clip has Ron Davis, the founder of the San Francisco Mime Troupe,
discussing his arrest in August, 1965, in Lafayette Park in San Francisco.
The Troupe had been banned from the City parks by the Recreation and Park
Commission because they considered their work to be obscene. Davis,
director of the Troupe at the time, stepped into the lead role for the
bust. Subsequent activities to raise support and awareness for the Troupe
were instrumental in the development of the Haight-Ashbury scene. At the
end of the clip, Peter Berg talks about the concept of "guerrilla
theatre" a term coined by Berg and first used by Davis in an early
article.
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Feedback on this page would be appreciated. Comments to archivist@diggers.org.
Merci beaucoup.
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Low-Res (56k modem) version:
Ron Davis in 1998 in the interview by Celine Deransart and Alice Gaillard for the
film Les Diggers de San Francisco.
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