Poster of Emergency: The Living Theatre

Emergency: The Living Theatre

Plot: a 32-minute color film by Gwen Brown, featuring precious footage of Living Theatre productions “Mysteries” and smaller pieces, “Paradise Now” and “Frankenstein. ” “The fusion of Brown’s freewheeling direct cinema and the Living Theatre’s performance for revolutionary change (amidst the heydays of both) unite as a dynamic concoction of the era, yielding for the viewer a shifting terrain of both critical insight and ecstatic zeal, not as a vacant nostalgia for a pre-commodified radicality, but as tactical inspiration for future days
Release Date: Monday, September 9 1968
56 years ago
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Cast

Portrait of Julian BeckJulian BeckJulian Beck was 43 in Emergency: The Living Theatre as 'Self'.
Birthday: Sun, May 31 1925 –
Sat, Sep 14 1985
Portrait of Judith MalinaJudith MalinaJudith Malina was 42 in Emergency: The Living Theatre as 'Self'.
Birthday: Fri, Jun 04 1926 –
Fri, Apr 10 2015
Portrait of Taylor MeadTaylor MeadTaylor Mead was 43 in Emergency: The Living Theatre as 'Self'.
Birthday: Wed, Dec 31 1924 –
Wed, May 08 2013
Portrait of Abbie HoffmanAbbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman was 31 in Emergency: The Living Theatre as 'Self'.
Birthday: Mon, Nov 30 1936 –
Wed, Apr 12 1989

Crew

Portrait of Gwen BrownGwen BrownGwen Brown was >> in Emergency: The Living Theatre as 'Director'
Birthday: Unknown Birthday