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Living Theatre ephemera collection
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Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]181 South College Avenue, Newark, DE 19717-5267
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the University of Delaware Library Special Collections. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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The Living Theatre was founded in 1947 as an imaginative alternative to the commercial theater by Judith Malina and Julian Beck. The Living Theatre has staged nearly a hundred productions performed in eight languages in 28 countries on five continents.
During the 1950's and early 1960's in New York, The Living Theatre pioneered the unconventional staging of poetic drama - the plays of American writers like Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Paul Goodman, Kenneth Rexroth and John Ashbery, as well as European writers rarely produced in America, including Cocteau, Lorca, Brecht and Pirandello.
Today the Living Theatre has a home at 21 Clinton Street, which is the company's first permanent home since the closing of The Living Theatre on Third Street at Avenue C in 1993. "History." The Living Theatre. http://www.livingtheatre.org/history.html (accessed May 20, 2008).
A collection of twenty-two ephemeral documents, such as photographs, flyers, posters, announcements, stationery, and programs, detail performances, readings, recitals and other events sponsored by the Living Theater of New York City during the 1950s and 1960s.
Announcements and posters for appearances by David Tudor, "Wagner Poets" (Malanga, Lima, Ceravolo), William Masselos, Spencer Holst and others are included. A photograph of Richard Wagner is inscribed by him to "Jo-Ann." The second photograph is a group shot of a wedding party.
The collection is arranged chronologically with undated material following.
Box 55, F0827: Shelved in SPEC MSS 0099 manuscript boxes.
Purchase, August 2006.
Processed and encoded by Anita Wellner, May 2008. Further encoded by George Apodaca, October 2015.
People
Organization
- Living Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn Academy of Music
- Dramatic Workshop and Technical Institute
- Hartt Chamber Players
- Manhattan Consort
Subject
Place
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Library Special Collections
- Finding Aid Author
- University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
- Finding Aid Date
- 2008 June 27
- Access Restrictions
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The collection is open for research.
- Use Restrictions
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Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. Please contact Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, http://library.udel.edu/spec/askspec/