Emergency: The Living Theatre(1968)

Emergency: The Living Theatre Synopsis

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)

Emergency: The Living Theatre (1968) is a drama and documentary film directed by Gwen Brown, released on September 9, 1968 with a runtime of 29m. It stars Julian Beck, Judith Malina, Taylor Mead and Abbie Hoffman.