num_pages: 434
description: The most radical uncompromising and experimental group in American theatrical history the Living Theatre was flamboyant and daring both onstage and off. It attracted attention worldwide violated many of the taboos of culture and government and unleashed a backlash of arrests imprisonment and attempts at suppression all while presenting the work of some of the worlds preeminent artists including Tennessee Williams Frank OHara James Agee Allen Ginsberg John Ashbery Merce Cunningham and John Cage.
language: English
title: The Living Theatre: Art, Exile, and Outrage
publisher: Grove Press