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Emergency: The Living Theatre

Emergency: The Living Theatre (1968)

0h 29m | PG-13

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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)

Director: Gwen Brown

Studio: N/A

Genre: Drama, Documentary

Video: 720p

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Cast

Julian Beck

Julian Beck

as Self

Judith Malina

Judith Malina

as Self

Taylor Mead

Taylor Mead

as Self

Abbie Hoffman

Abbie Hoffman

as Self