Books, Arts & Manners: The Living Theatre’s Dance of Death

The Brooklyn Academy of Music has generally been regarded as one of the more literate passions, one of the more civilized persuasions of that famous borough. Odd then, so it seems, and yet rather cunning in its fashion that here, of all places, in a local shrine dedicated to Excellence, Mr. Julian Beck and Miss Judith Malina gathered their little rosebuds in the form of the Living Theatre. Why odd you say? Because in its production of Paradise Now the Living Theatre has betrayed itself as being

a). intellectually paraplegic

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The Brooklyn Academy of Music has generally been regarded as one of the more literate passions, one of the more civilized persuasions of that famous borough. Odd then, so it seems, and yet rather cunning in its fashion that here, of all places, in a local shrine dedicated to Excellence, Mr. Julian Beck and Miss Judith Malina gathered their little rosebuds in the form of the Living Theatre. Why odd you say? Because in its production of Paradise Now the Living Theatre has betrayed itself as being

a). intellectually paraplegic