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'''Judith Malina''' (b. June 4, 1926) is an avant-garde playwright, actor, and director, and co-founder of New York's [[The Living Theatre]], an experimental theatre group that particularly addresses audience interactivity (the [[fourth wall]]). | [[File:Malina-Korach-2010.jpg|thumb|right|Image for ''Korach, the Biblical Anarchist'' (2010-11)]] [[File:LivingTheatre-handstreelogo.png|thumb|right|125px|Logo for "The Living Theatre"]] '''Judith Malina''' (b. June 4, 1926) is an avant-garde playwright, actor, and director, and co-founder of New York's [[The Living Theatre]], an experimental theatre group that particularly addresses audience interactivity (the [[fourth wall]]). | ||
Malina is an anarchist and pacifist, and became interested in political theatre at any early age. She studied with Erwin Piscator at the New School for Social Research. She worked with and was involved with fellow avant-garde theatre activists Julian Beck (d. 1985) and Hanon Reznikov (d. 2008). Much of Malina's work with The Living Theatre is anti-authoritarian, and critical of various orthodoxies of state, religion, culture. | Malina is an anarchist and pacifist, and became interested in political theatre at any early age. She studied with Erwin Piscator at the New School for Social Research. She worked with and was involved with fellow avant-garde theatre activists Julian Beck (d. 1985) and Hanon Reznikov (d. 2008). Much of Malina's work with The Living Theatre is anti-authoritarian, and critical of various orthodoxies of state, religion, culture. | ||
Many of Malina's works include surrealist or fantastic elements. | |||
==Works== | ==Works== | ||
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* ''Poems of a Wandering Jewess'' (Paris: Handshake Editions, 1982) | * ''Poems of a Wandering Jewess'' (Paris: Handshake Editions, 1982) | ||
* ''The Diaries of Judith Malina: 1947-1957'' (New York: Grove Press, 1984) | * ''The Diaries of Judith Malina: 1947-1957'' (New York: Grove Press, 1984) | ||
* ''Korach: The Biblical Anarchist'' (2010-11 production at The Living Theatre) | |||
==Further reading== | ==Further reading== | ||
; From Malina | ; From Malina | ||
* | * http://www.livingtheatre.org/ | ||
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; Significant works | ; Significant works | ||
* [[Antonin Artaud]] (1937; Eng. trans. 1958), ''The Theater and Its Double'' (essays) | |||
* Renfrew Neff (1970). ''The Living Theatre: U.S.A.'' | * Renfrew Neff (1970). ''The Living Theatre: U.S.A.'' | ||
* Aldo Rostagno, Judith Malina and Julian Beck (1970). ''We, the Living Theatre''. New York: Ballantine Books. | * Aldo Rostagno, Judith Malina and Julian Beck (1970). ''We, the Living Theatre''. New York: Ballantine Books. | ||
Latest revision as of 12:21, 13 January 2011
Judith Malina (b. June 4, 1926) is an avant-garde playwright, actor, and director, and co-founder of New York's The Living Theatre, an experimental theatre group that particularly addresses audience interactivity (the fourth wall).
Malina is an anarchist and pacifist, and became interested in political theatre at any early age. She studied with Erwin Piscator at the New School for Social Research. She worked with and was involved with fellow avant-garde theatre activists Julian Beck (d. 1985) and Hanon Reznikov (d. 2008). Much of Malina's work with The Living Theatre is anti-authoritarian, and critical of various orthodoxies of state, religion, culture.
Many of Malina's works include surrealist or fantastic elements.
Works
- Entretiens avec le Living Théâtre (with Julian Beck and Jean-Jaques Lebel) (1969)
- We, The Living Theatre (with Julian Beck and Aldo Lastagmo) (1970)
- Paradise Now (with Julian Beck) (1971)
- The Enormous Despair, Diaries 1968-89 (New York: Random House, 1972)
- Le Legs de Cain: trois projets pilotes (with Julian Beck) (1972)
- Frankenstein (Venice Version) (with Julian Beck) (1972)
- Sette meditazioni sul sadomachismo politico (with Julian Beck) (1977)
- Living Heist Leben Theater (with Imke Buchholz) (1978)
- Diary excerpts Brazil 1970, Diary of Bologna 1977 (1979)
- Poems of a Wandering Jewess (Paris: Handshake Editions, 1982)
- The Diaries of Judith Malina: 1947-1957 (New York: Grove Press, 1984)
- Korach: The Biblical Anarchist (2010-11 production at The Living Theatre)
Further reading
- From Malina
- References
- "Judith Malina", Wikipedia
- "The Living Theatre", Wikipedia
- Significant works
- Antonin Artaud (1937; Eng. trans. 1958), The Theater and Its Double (essays)
- Renfrew Neff (1970). The Living Theatre: U.S.A.
- Aldo Rostagno, Judith Malina and Julian Beck (1970). We, the Living Theatre. New York: Ballantine Books.