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The Living Theatre is an American theatre company founded in 1947 and based in New York City. It is the oldest experimental theatre group in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] For most of its history it was led by its founders, actress Judith Malina and painter/poet Julian Beck .
Julian Beck (May 31, 1925 – September 14, 1985) was an American actor, stage director, poet, and painter. He is best known for co-founding and directing the Living Theatre, as well as his role as Reverend Henry Kane, the malevolent preacher in the supernatural horror film Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
The score to accompany the Los Angeles production was performed by Dexter Gordon who also played "Number One Musician". He later recorded several pieces from this production for his Blue Note release Dexter Calling...
Raj Bisaria invited Delhi groups to produce, under TAW’s auspices, plays in Hindi with a view to making local groups conscious of the potentialities and challenges of Hindi theatre. [9] TAW’s first Hindi play was Baqi Itihas, a translation of Badal Sircar’s Bengali play on a thrust stage. It was a non-realistic presentation, using giant ...
Arvind Gaur is an Indian theatre director, actor trainer, social activist, street theatre worker and story teller. [1] He is known for socially and politically relevant plays in India . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Gaur's plays are contemporary and thought-provoking, connecting intimate personal spheres of existence to larger social political issues.
Early development of modern Hindi theatre can be traced to the work of Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850–1885), a theatre actor, director, manager, and playwright based in Varanasi (Banaras), who is also the father of modern Hindi literature as in his short life of 35 years, he edited two magazines, Kavi vachan Sudha and Harishchandra chandrika, wrote numerous volumes of verse in Braj bhasa ...
Environmental Theater (1973) Theatres, Spaces, and Environments (1975 with Jerry Rojo and Brooks McNamara) Essays on Performance Theory (1976) The End of Humanism (1981) From the Ramlila to the Avantgarde (1983) Between Theater and Anthropology (1985) The Engleburt Stories (1987, with Samuel MacIntosh Schechner) The Future of Ritual (1993)
The Open Theater was founded in New York City by a group of former students of acting teacher Nola Chilton, together with director Joseph Chaikin (formerly of The Living Theatre), Peter Feldman, Megan Terry, and Sam Shepard. Joseph Chaikin had just left the Living Theater, following the arrest of Julian Beck and Judith Malina for tax evasion. [1]