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Emergency: The Living Theatre
0.0 / 10• 1968• 29m•NR• English
DramaDocumentary
Storyline
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.” – Andrew Wilson (Artist’s Access Television)
Cast & Crew
Julian Beck
Self
Lead
Judith Malina
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Taylor Mead
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Abbie Hoffman
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What People Are Saying
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“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Gwen Brown's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Emergency: The Living Theatre is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
