Stage Management Association Uk

Stage Management Association Uk

Stage Management Association Uk

Musicians, film makers, poets and writers have expressed rebellion against parents, governments and norms of the time, provoking outrage through their music, clothes, hair, tattoos, piercings and public behaviour. The Decadent Thirties, and Swinging Sixties with its "protest movement," stand out. However, history is littered with parents and children falling out, each unable to understand the other. Accumulated wisdom and proffered advice is usually rejected. Each generation makes its own mistakes.

Historical Rebellions, Uprisings and Wars

There are shades of rebellion: from passive resistance via civil disobedience, through subversion to revolt, insurrection, mutiny, terrorism, revolution to war, civil or international. Rebellion means refusal to obey orders or systems, sometimes tolerated to preserve peace, but frequently opposed. Governments usually resist protest, like Tiananmen Square in China in 1989 or UK’s 1990 “Poll Tax” riots.

In medieval times, there were regular peasants revolts across Europe, against feudal tyranny. In England Wat Tyler led one in 1381. The English went into civil wars and executed their King, Charles I in 1649 as "tyrant, traitor, murderer and public enemy." During the French Revolution (1789-99) the bourgeousie guillotined their king and queen, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in 1973.