El Teatro Campesino

…Bread and Puppet Theatre, and El Teatro Campesino. The San Francisco Mime Troupe revived commedia dell’arte techniques in their politically motivated street performances. El Teatro Campesino invented the acto in an attempt to create a specifically Chicano (Mexican American) theatre. Many of their early performances took place on the picket…

…groups were emulated by the Teatro Campesino, the first of the Chicano theatres in the United States, which was founded in California as part of the farmworkers’ union campaign for recognition in the mid-1960s.