The tendency to use slogans and direct propaganda in street theatre was felt to be harmful. It is possible to reach the people and be accepted by them only by establishing a relationship through constant work. Street theatre can and should also entertain; satire need not be everything. Also important .is the actor's self. The street theatre actor plays two roles simultaneously: he is playing a character and is being himself His responsibility is towards the role and an issue, as Rathi Bartholomew put it. It is a dialectical relationship. Almost all the groups which participated in the festival performed on the streets of Bhopal every evening to appreciative response from the people of Bhopal. The groups also gave demonstrations followed by discussions, within the festival premises, for the participants. Impro-vization is one of the essential, features of street plays. A few sessions were devoted to this aspect and many groups presented plays which they claimed were written in two, three, four hours, before or even after coming to the workshop. There were performances based also on the exchange of scripts, the Jan Natya Manch's scripts provingto be very popular. Whether or not street theatre can start off a cultural revolution, its importance as a social phenomenon cannot be denied. The sociology of this phenomenon should prove to be as interesting and valuable as that of any other. Journal of Arts and Ideas 71