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Judith Malina (June 4, 1926 – April 10, 2015) was a German-born American actress, director and writer. With her husband Julian Beck, Malina co-founded The Living Theatre, a radical political theatre troupe that rose to prominence in New York City and Paris during the 1950s and 1960s.
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Death. Beck was diagnosed with stomach cancer in late 1983, and he died two years later on September 14, 1985 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, aged 60. [5] In 2004, 19 years after his death, Beck was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. Judith Malina was inducted to the Hall of Fame the same year.
The history of The Living Theatre begins when Judith Malina and Julian Beck meet each other in 1943. He was 18 and she was 17. Julian was the son of well to do second generation Jewish parents. His father was the successful owner of an automobile parts business. His mother had been a teacher. They lived in a large apartment on West End Avenue.
Founded in 1947 as an imaginative alternative to the commercial theater by Judith Malina, the German-born student of Erwin Piscator, and Julian Beck, an abstract expressionist painter of the New York School, The Living Theatre has staged nearly a hundred productions performed in eight languages in 28 countries on five continents – a unique ...
Apr 10, 2015 · Judith Malina, an actor and director who with her husband, Julian Beck, founded the Living Theater, a troupe of activists and provocateurs who advanced the idea of political theater in...
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Jul 2, 2018 · In the anarchist perspective of its founders, Julian Beck (1925–85) and Judith Malina (1926–2015), avant-garde theatre had to emancipate the audience and encourage them to engage with the injustice around them.
Julian Beck and Judith Malina were members of the Living Theater troupe, who were arrested on charges of marijuana possession while performing street theater in Ouro Preto. Their incarceration led to a backlash among intellectual and artistic elites both in the United States and Brazil.
