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Theater legend Malina has written one of the most interesting studies of the avant-garde theatrical movement published in the last several years. Highly recommended. -- M.D. Whitlatch, CHOICE magazine [For previous work]

Serious theater buffs will applaud this final performance by a singular artist. --Library Journal The single most influential American company of its era. --Stephen J. Bottoms, author, Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement The Living Theatre was the most radical, uncompromising, and experimental group in American theatrical history. --John Tytell, author, The Living Theatre: Art, Exile, and Outrage The most prominent and persistent advocate for a 'new theater,' one that sought to dissolve the accepted artifice of stage presentations, to conjoin art and political protest, and to shrink, if not eliminate, the divide between performers and the audience. --New York Times I can't think of any other inspiration of freedom that comes close to representing the message of The Living Theatre and its daring and monumental effects. -- Al Pacino, award-winning actor, from the dedication Her stamina was extraordinary. She was happy, buoyant, and spread the love. --Angelica Huston, award-winning actress A magical diary: pithy, salient. Shows the great arc of an ever radiant revolutionary artist and activist. Judith Malina is still out in the vast sky of our Utopian Living Theatre hearts and minds. --Anne Waldman, award-winning poet and performer If one wants to have a life as a woman artist, first of all read Judith Malina--this lovely and evocative FULL MOON STAGES. She was one of the greatest theater makers of the 20th into the 21st Century, and one of the most fascinating, brilliant women of the world. --Karen Malpede, award-winning playwright For the people who knew Judith Malina in life nothing can fill the absence of that most vibrant, profound, quixotic, being but this book, FULL MOON STAGES is a Fattura, a spell, that can conjure Judith for YOU in the present. It is a vortex, an entry into her world, into that amazing mind and life of hers. It is a diagram, an ex-ray, a blueprint, a map of a poetic, artistic, political, metaphysical life lived to the fullest. --Penny Arcade, award-winning performance artist Every month describes a concise lunar aspect of the Beautiful Nonviolent Anarchist Revolution. Judith has inscribed The Living's Akashic Record in a 50-year love letter. --Joanie Fritz Zosike, Living Theatre company member A palimpsest of Living Theatre experience of over 50 years. --Thomas Walker, Living Theatre company member Having this collection in hand is to hold an intimate portrait of Judith's honesty, resilience, pain and spirit wrapped around life with her Living Theatre! --Lois Kagan Mingus, Living Theatre company member since 1988/Artistic Associate/Board of Directors member

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Judith Malina is a German-born American theater and film actress, writer, and director. She was one of the founders of The Living Theatre, a radical political theatre troupe that rose to prominence in New York City and Paris during the 1950s and 60s. She lives in New York City. She trained with Erwin Piscator at the New School for Social Research in New York, where the pioneering director established a ""Dramatic Workshop,"" during his exile from Nazi Germany in the mid-1940's. In 1947 she and painter Julian Beck founded The Living Theatre as an artistic and socially-conscious alternative to the commercial theater. Since then she has directed (and often acted in) more than sixty important productions which have hadconsiderable influence on the development of contemporary theater, including William Carlos Williams' Many Loves, Jack Gelber's The Connection, Kenneth H. Brown's The Brig, Bertolt Brecht's Antigone and the collective creations Mysteries and Smaller Pieces, Frankenstein, Paradise Now and The Legacy of Cain. Judith Malina, along with The Living Theatre Company, has been arrested and imprisoned in various countries for the theatrical expression of the group's anarchist-pacifist principle. Following the untimely death of Julian Beck in 1984 she has directed the company alongside Hanon Reznikov, whom she married in 1988. Malina is also the author of numerous published essays on theater and politics, diaries, poems and plays and occasionally appears as an actress in films (Dog Day Afternoon, China Girl, Awakenings, Enemies: a Love Story, The Addams Family, Household Saints and When in Rome) and television (Miami Vice, Tribeca, ER, The Sopranos). She has taught at Columbia University, New York University, the New School for Social Research and is a 1996 recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from Whittier College. In 1999, she and Hanon Reznikov opened the Centro Living Europa, the European headquarters of The Living Theatre in the Palazzo Spinola of Rocchetta Ligure, Italy. In 1975 Malina was given a lifetime achievement Obie award, she was a recipient of a 1985 Guggenheim award, in 2003 Malina was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame, and in 2008 she was awarded the Brazilian President's Medal for Outstanding Artistic Achievement. In 2007, The Living Theatre inaugurated a new, performance space on the Lower East Side of New York City. The theatre opened with an incredibly successful revival of The Brig directed by Malina, which was awarded Obies for Best Ensemble and Best Direction and is still touring in Europe.

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