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Living Theatre for Immediate Release the Brooklyn Academy of Music March 20, 1975 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y.11217 Press Office ( 212) 636-4123 8Affl Living Theatre For Immediate Release The Brooklyn Academy of Music March 20, 1975 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y.11217 Press Office ( 212) 636-4123 Brooklyn Academy of Music and Universal Movement Theatre Repertory will present a benefit for The Living Theatre Collective's newest work, a cycle of plays called The Legacy of Cain --- An Open Discussion On Theatre Now with Julian Beck Joseph Chaikin Judith Malina Richard Schechner and the Entire Audience Wednesday evening, April 23, 1975, 8:00pm, Lepercq Space. Donation: $4.00. TDF vouchers accepted. For information and reservations: 212-989-2207. The Living Theatre's productions of Paradise Now, Frankenstein, Mysteries and Smaller Pieces and Antigone (seen in performances at BAM during the company's 1968-69 United States tour) are among the works which have earned its reputation as one of the most important American theatrical groups of this generation. The Living Theatre has been influential not only in the United States but also in Europe where the company toured extensively between 1961-70. In 1970-71 The Living Theatre went to Brazil where work on The Legacy of Cain began. The Legacy of Cain includes a variety of theatrical forms, many of which are planned to be performed in non-theatrical environments: streets, factories and mills, social halls, churches, gymnasiums, parks, schools, hospitals, empty lots and prisons. The forms which the plays will take include parades, a street carnival, a tower 40 feet high to be erected in the open air, a labyrinth, oratoriums, action pieces, children's plays, pieces for television and radio, games, rituals and dream plays. The forms themselves will incorporate a variety of theatrical techniques. Improvisation, audience involvement, puppets and grand machines, bio-mechanics, video and film projection are only a few of the many aspects of. total theatre that The Living Theatre is planning as part of the panoramic work of The Legacy of Cain. The many forms of the cycle are held together by a common theme - freedom and its loss, and the legacy - the human legacy - is the many forms of bondage to a violent culture to which we have all submitted and from which we can, and are, freeing ourselves. This bondage to violence and its possible resolution through peaceful and dramatic changes marks the P,lot of the plays of The Legacy of Cain. more... Release: March 20, 1975 - The Legacy of Cain, page 2- Julian Beck is the author of The Life of the Theatre and Songs of the Revolution; Judith Malina is the author of The Enormous Despair; together they wrote down the collective creations of The Living Theatre, Paradise Now, Frankenstein, Mysteries and Smaller Pieces, Favela Project No. 1: Christmas Cake for the Hot Hole and the Cold Hole. Joseph Chaikin, a recipient of four Obie awards for acting and directing, founded The Open Theatre in 1964. Among works that he has directed or co-directed are America Hurrah, Viet Rock, The Serpent, Terminal, The Mutation Show, Nightwalk and Chekhov's The Seagull. In 1972 he received an honorary doctorate from Drake University and published his book, The Presence of an Actor. At present he is working with former members of the now disbanded Open Theatre and others on The Fable: concepts of "once upon a time" except ... Richard Schechner is the founder and co-director of The Performance Group, Professor of Drama at New York University, former editor of The Drama Review and author of Public Domain and Environmental Theatre. Schechner directed Brecht's Mother Courage which is presently running at the Performing Garage, Sam Shepard's The Tooth of Crime and Commune, the third creation of The Performance Group following Dionysus In 69 and Makbeth. -30- For further information: Universal Movement Repertory Theatre Box 774 Times Square Station New York, New York 10036 212-989-2207.
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