Monumental Dialectics: Staging the Haymarket Square Confrontation

Writing
Written by L.M. Bogad

Haymarket Square Puppet“Monumental Dialectics: Staging the Haymarket Square Confrontation,”in Fifth Estate 372 (Spring 2006): 9-11, 16.In 1998, I wrote HAYMARKET, the first full-length drama about the Haymarket Square Confrontation of 1886-7.  3 1/2 years later, I worked with Tavia LaFollette to stage a street puppet show in Chicago to commemorate that tale of terror, racism, and class struggle.  This piece examines the importance of monuments in the telling and retelling of this story.

L.M. Bogad

Bogad writes, performs, and strategizes with mischievous artists such as the Yes Men, Agit-Pop, and La Pocha Nostra. He is a veteran of the Lincoln Center Theatre Director’s Laboratory, and a co-founder of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army.

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