ABSTRACT

The facade of disciplined student endeavour was rolled away revealing an entirely new scenario in the making: the Houghton Street Day Nursery of Revolution. The main activity of the Nursery of Revolution was drama. The main activity of the Nursery of Revolution was drama. In the darkest corner of the Nursery is to be found an Old Theatre, so called because the same childish scenes are re-enacted there year after year. There the children use their imaginations and play at revolution. Apart from the new found power of fantasy the Day Nursery revealed an incipient thuggishness. It appeared that occupation was nine-tenths of the law. The social relationships of the Nursery may be boring and infuriating but hardly a challenge to the adult world. The older style of revolutionary disciplined himself and was cruelly anal in his irrevocable March towards a New Society.