Celebrate The Living Theatre W/ Events & More 3/23, 3/25

Join the members of the Martin E. Segal Theatre for a two-day celebration of The Living Theatre, including screenings of work, documentaries, panel discussions, staged readings, and more. Invited participants include: Thomas Walker, Alisa Solomon, Carlo Altomare, Kenneth Brown, Joan MacIntosh, Cyndy Rosenthal, Marvin Carlson, and David Savran. The event will cuminate in the presentation of the Edwin Booth Award by the Doctoral Theatre Students Association to Judith Malina.

Martin E. Segal Theatre, Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Ave at 34th St. Free! First come, first served. This will be presented by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, CUNY Graduate Center.

The schedule is as follows:

Monday, March 23, 2009
Martin E. Segal Theatre

10:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.
Screening Excerpts (times are approximate):
10:00 Allen Ginsberg at the Living Theatre, 1958
10:15 The Connection, 1959
10:45 Lost Lost Lost, 1975 (dir. Jonas Mekas)
11:00 The Brig, 1963
11:30 scenes from The Brig in Belgium
11:40 Probenarbeit (Rehearsals for Frankenstein, Berlin)
12:15 Frankenstein, 1965
12:45 Mysteries, 1969
1:15 L'Eridita di Meyerhold, 1982 (dir. S. Arcangelo)
1:30 Antigone, 1984
2:00 On Bakunin's Grave, 1985 (dir. Nam June Paik)
2:30 No, Sir!, 2006
2:45 Eureka!, 2008
3:00 Resist, 2003 (dir. Dirk Szuszies)

6:30-9:00 P.M.
Screening:
Paradise Now + Emergency, 1970
+ Discussion with Judith Malina

Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Proshansky Auditorium

10:00 A.M. - 12:30 P.M.
Screening Excerpts (times are approximate):
10:00 Julian Beck in: Edipo Re, 1967 (dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini)
12:00 Judith Malina in: Flaming Creatures, 1963; The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man, 1963; Dog Day Afternoon, 1975, Radio Days, 1987; Awakenings, 1990; The Addams Family, 1991; The Sopranos, 2006.

1:30 P.M.
Documentary: Signals Through the Flames, 1984 (dir. Sheldon Rochlin)

3:00 P.M.
Thomas Walker: The Many Lives of the Living Theatre. Featured Panelists: Alisa Solomon, Carlo Altomare, Kenneth Brown, Joan MacIntosh, and Cyndy Rosenthal.

4:15 P.M.
Response Panel: David Savran and Marvin Carlson, Moderators

6:30 P.M.
Performance Selections: Prometheus Suite (with Carlo Altomare); The Connection (with Brad Burgess + Eno Edet); The Zero Method + Antigone (with Judith Malina + Thomas Walker); and video presentation of Eureka by Patrick Grant.

Tribute to Julian Beck and Hanon Reznikov by Judith Malina

8:00 P.M.
Presentation of The Edwin Booth Award by the Doctoral Theatre Students Association to Judith Malina.

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (MESTC), The Graduate Center, CUNY, is a non-profit center for theatre, dance, and film affiliated with CUNY's Ph.D. Program in Theatre. Originally founded in 1979 as the Center for Advanced Studies in Theatre Arts (CASTA), it was renamed in March of 1999 in recognition of one of New York City's outstanding leaders of the arts. The Center's priMary Focus is to bridge the gap between the academic and professional performing arts communities by providing an open environment for the development of educational, community-driven, and professional projects in the performing arts. As a result, MESTC is home to theatre scholars, students, playwrights, actors, dancers, directors, dramaturgs, and performing arts managers, as well as both the local and international theatre communities. The Center presents staged readings to further the development of new and classic plays, lecture series, televised seminars featuring professional and academic luminaries, and arts in education programs, and maintains its long-standing visiting-scholars-from-abroad program. In addition, the Center publishes a series of highly regarded academic journals, as well as books, including plays in translation, all written and edited by renowned scholars. For more information visit http://web.gc.cuny.edu/mestc.