San Juan Baptista - El Teatro Campesino

El Teatro Campesino (The Farmworkers Theater) began as a way to raise funds for the grape boycott and farmworker strike in 1965. By 1970, it had established what would come to be known as teatro chicano. It was style of agitprop theater that incorporated the spiritual and presentational style of the Italian Renaissance commedia dell'arte with the humor, character types, folklore and popular culture of the Mexican theater.