Summary
Julian Beck: The life of the theater
Stage madman, theorist, anarchist. Together with Judith Malin, the founder of The Living Theatre, the theater company that gave the entire 1960s that explosive charge by which we remember them or dream about them (perhaps naively, but which is again so symptomatic of our impoverished and now already zombie times). There is no icon from the world of music (which, in a significant part, was the flywheel of the general non-conformist rebellion) for whom The Living Theater was not a trigger or a signal to go even further in everything: from Detroit's MC5, to Jim Morrison, who took part in some performances of their most famous play, "Paradise Now", and followed all the others, which took place in Los Angeles and San Francisco. But The Living Theatre's influence, messages and field of action were much wider (they were not only active in the USA, but also in France, Brazil and elsewhere). Julian Beck distinguished himself as a very eloquent philosopher of liberation, which is very convincingly confirmed by this very book (crucial when it comes to the idea of the Living Theatre).
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