Barbar garson biography
Barbara Garson is an American playwright and author, perhaps best known for the play MacBird!!
Barbara Garson’s 7 years in Berkeley: From Cuba to ‘MacBird’
Barbara Garson came to Berkeley from New York in 1962.
Barbara Garson (born July 7, ) is an American playwright and author, perhaps best known for the play MacBird!
She was ours for seven years. She left with fame in her pocket as a result of the success of her satirical play, MacBird. This is an review of those seven years.
Garson and her then-husband, Marvin, honeymooned in Cuba after the triumph of the revolution in January 1959.
They supported the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, founded in 1960 by two CBS reporters, Robert Taber and Richard Gibson. Garson supported the goals but wasn’t naive — she saw the FPPC as a front for the Young Socialist Alliance, a Trotskyist youth group of the Socialist Workers Party.
At its zenith, the YSA had 1,434 members.
When she and Marvin arrived in Berkeley, they had seen Operation Abolition, a short film produced by the House Committee on Un-American Activities documenting demonstration and rioting d