Hostname: page-component-84b7d79bbc-7nlkj Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-08-04T04:21:44.019Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

The Living Theatre in Exile: Mysteries, Frankenstein

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2021

Extract

The Living Theatre Company of New York has been playing Europe, in voluntary, self-imposed exile, since September, 1964. During this period, despite extreme physical and financial hardship, they have created and produced two astonishing new works, Mysteries and Smaller Pieces and a new version of Frankenstein, both of which have had an enormous impact on critics and large audiences in Europe. Both are remarkable in that they are the result of the collective authorship of an entire company working deliberately with the concepts of Artaud. Each has a freedom of movement, an imaginative inventiveness, and lyric qualities that transcend Artaud. Each has a unity of form and content, fusing the political and aesthetic directions in which the Living Theatre had been groping for many years.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Tulane Drama Review 1966

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)