PLAYWRIGHTS ON WRITING - Ah, those stinking badges

LA Times: "When Culture Clash was born in 1984, we did not know who our audience would be. We had entered the rough-and-tumble world of performance art and stand-up comedy. The political Chicano Teatro Movement — a genre born of out of the rural farmworker struggle and its city cousin, the early student protests during the Vietnam War — had already seen its best, most urgent days, and that movement now left us off somewhere between the art galleries of the Mission District and the comedy clubs of the suburbs."