The Living Theatre | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 11 pages of analysis & critique of The Living Theatre.

The Living Theatre | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 11 pages of analysis & critique of The Living Theatre.
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SOURCE: Moore, Honor. “The Visit: A Memoir of the Living Theatre at Yale.” Theater 28, no. 3 (1998): 23–30.

In the following essay, Moore describes a visit by The Living Theatre to Yale in 1968, the conflicts it generated, and the way the visit changed her idea of theater.

When I arrived in September 1967, the Yale School of Drama promised everything to a 22-year-old in love with the theater, and everyone, it seemed, wandered through it: Sam Shepard with a ponytail down his back; Stella Adler in her seventies, a long-stemmed red rose secured in the décolletage of her black sheath; Jonathan Miller to direct Robert Lowell's version of Prometheus Bound; Joseph Heller, Philip Roth, and William Styron promising to write plays; Kenneth Haigh, Stacy Keach, Ron Leibman, and Mildred Dunnock as members of the new, much-trumpeted repertory company. Robert Brustein had arrived the year before, and, fresh from storming the walls...

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