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

Crew

Portrait of Gwen BrownGwen Brown
Gwen Brown was
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as 'Director'
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