Watts Tower Theatre Workshop

Duration: 27

Year Published: 1969

Creator: Public Television Laboratory

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: Introduces the Watts Towers Theatre Workshop consisting of black teenagers from the Los Angeles Watts Ghetto. Relates that the group was founded in 1963 by Stephen Kyle Kent as a Join the Arts project, and utilizes everyday events to create a situation of active involvement and immediate importance for personal and social change. Presents these ideas by means of improvisational techniques, performing three acts by, for, and about the people living in the ghetto.

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