Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena pointed out that street theatre groups cannot sustain themselves unless they work with political parties. The left parties have been the first to sponsor such activity through their cultural units. (The present government at the centre also uses street theatre to educate the people on themes like family planning, hygiene, etc.) Prasanna further described street theatre as graphic theatre, comparing it with the graphic arts. While emphasizing the political purpose of street theatre, he pointed out that its emergence was linked to the financial and other difficulties faced by trained theatre men. Tripurari Sharma gave a detailed account of the problems of practice. She spoke of the need to seek the audience's good will by consistent work and how street theatre has go beyond accepted norms of protest if its work is to yield results. B.V. Karanth, speaking on the challenges of acting in street theatre, said -street theatre groups tended to compensate every deficiency by intellectual means. Effective communication is possible only through effective presentation. He said the skills of acting, learnt from the local folk theatre and through observation of local gestures, would make the medium more effective. G.P. Deshpande presented a paper on Brecht's didactic theatre as an example of what street theatre should seek to achieve. Brecht conceived of didactic theatre as a means of politically educating the actor so that he can present a truly political theatre with clarity. In India today there is radical theatre, the theatre of protest, which eventually might lead nowhere. A truly political theatre should be able to show an alternative. Bansi Kaul spoke on the use of space, colour and spectacle in street drama. He also emphasized the actor's competence to use space imaginatively and to create space for himself. Rathi Bartholomew, speaking on 'Street Theatre Past and Present', emphasized the fact that street and proscenium theatre were not basically opposed to each other except in the manner of staging - the open informal staging of street theatre as again&t the naturalistic staging of Journal of Ar ts and Ideas