The Living Theatre : Art, Exile and Outrage

ISBN-13: 9780413708007

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A history of America's most influential avant-garde theatre ensemble. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s The Living Theatre was the most radical, uncompromising and experimental group in American theatrical history. Flamboyant, artistic and daring, both onstage and off, they attracted attention world-wide. At one point they became a tribe of exiled theatre artists roaming the world. The author's history of the company is a detailed biography of its two charismatic founders and lead performers, Julian Beck and Judith Malina. His story of The Living Theatre is also filled with an exotic cast of characters, all of whom worked with, and were influenced by, the company: Tennessee Williams, Frank O'Hara. Anais Nin, James Agee, Allen Ginsberg and the Beats, Jackson Pollack and the Abstract Expressionists, Peggy Guggenheim, Merce Cunningham, John Cage, and more.