From: wlah...@gmail.com   
      
   Hey,   
      
   Back in the day – as they say – I attended an artsy fartsy high school in   
   Queens, NY, and one day my sculpture teacher – who everyone called “Sister   
   Ina” – asked if anyone could come to Manhattan and help her with some   
   scenery at a theatre    
   she was connected with. Having had a grandmother in vaudeville and some   
   history of putting on shows in the barn – I mean garage – I jumped at the   
   change.   
      
   That lead to working at Second Storey Players – the year they won an Obie   
   – and at a rehearsal I found a copy of Artaud Anthology published by City   
   Lights and that lead to The Theatre And Its Double – that contains the quote   
   “If there is still    
   one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying   
   with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling   
   through the flames” – and that lead to The Living Theatre.   
      
   The Living Theatre was established by Judith Malina and Julian Beck in 1947 in   
   an attempt to create an alternative to commercial theatre. They produced plays   
   based on the works of European writers, as well as The Connection and The   
   Brig. Their political    
   edge attracted the powers-that-be that would close venues that hosted the   
   theatre company. According to livingtheatre.org:   
      
   “In the 1970′s, The Living Theatre began to create The Legacy of Cain, a   
   cycle of plays for non-traditional venues. From the prisons of Brazil to the   
   gates of the Pittsburgh steel mills, and from the slums of Palermo to the   
   schools of New York City,    
   the company offered these plays, which include Six Public Acts, The Money   
   Tower, Seven Meditations on Political Sado-Masochism, Turning the Earth and   
   the Strike Support Oratorium free of charge to the broadest of all possible   
   audiences.”   
      
   In those days – the days of the Civil Rights Movement, the Woman's Movement,   
   the Vietnam War, the Gay Liberation Front – everything was sexual or   
   political and although I never worked for them, they were always an   
   inspiration and it would be    
   difficult for any movie to catch that energy. This film makes a valiant   
   attempt.   
      
   Directed by Sheldon Rochlin and Maxine Harris. Cinematography by Sheldon   
   Rochlin. With Julian Beck, Judith Malina, and Mark Hall Amitin, among others.   
   It's available for free download from the Internet Archive.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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