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The Living Theatre's Money Tower

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2021

Paul Ryder Ryan
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Extract

We have moved into the position now of where we are more concerned with being directly a part of the political activity of our time than we are with being a part of the theatrical activity of our time.” So said Julian Beck of The Living Theater. He was speaking in the somewhat derelict three-story brownstone near the Brooklyn Academy of Music that has been the home of the twenty-member collective for the last couple of years. Judith Malina, Beck's wife and co-founder of the theatre, explained that on January 1st of this year The Living had begun another rehearsal phase in its development of The Legacy of Cain, a cycle of some 150 plays to be performed not in theatres but throughout a city.

The Legacy of Cain is a unique theatrical/political piece. The Living collective has been working on the development of the cycle for four-and-a-half years, and it is estimated that it is at least three or four years from culmination.

Type
Rehearsal Procedures
Information
The Drama Review , Volume 18 , Issue 2: Rehearsal Procedures Issue and Berlin Dada , June 1974 , pp. 9 - 19
Copyright
Copyright © 1974 The Drama Review

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Footnotes

The title sketch was drawn by Judith Malina in May 1973.

References

* All quotes with this article, unless otherwise specified, are from a series of interviews with the Becks held in January, February, and March of 1974.

The photograph on the facing page shows The Living Theatre rehearsing distribution cycle on the money tower at the Brooklyn Academy. Beck and Malina are seated at table with backs to camera.