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Emergency: The Living Theatre

Emergency: The Living Theatre

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 9, 1968

Runtime

0h 29m

Genres

Drama, Documentary

Original Title

Emergency: The Living Theatre

Director

Gwen Brown

Description

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)