SOURCE: Brustein, Robert and Kenneth Brown. “An Exchange of Letters.” Theater 29, no. 2 (1999): 167–69.

In the following correspondences, Brustein, the former head of the Yale Drama School, and Brown, the author of The Brig, argue about The Living Theatre's production of The Brig at Yale in 1968.

Editor's Note:

In 1998 Theater published its thirtieth anniversary issue (volume 28, number 3), in which many of the contributors from its first year—playwrights, critics, students—wrote about the sixties. Robert Brustein, as then-dean of the Yale drama school and founder of the Yale Rep, was central to the more memoir-ish of the essays. When it was printed, I wanted the discussion of sixties politics/sixties theater to continue and invited him to respond to those essays for the next issue, saying I hadn't asked earlier for fear of an unmanageable back and forth with half a dozen writers before we were even typeset. As Tallyrand...