Judith Malina and the Living Theatre: Storming the Barricades and Creating Collectively

Abstract

This chapter revisits Judith Malina’s history with the Living Theatre, and considers the closure of the Clinton Street storefront theatre, Judith Malina’s move to the Lillian Booth Actors Home late in her life, Malina’s final productions, and her ongoing engagement with the Occupy protests. Malina’s early street theatre is one of the central roots or inspirations for the recent Occupy Movement. While, as the chapter contends, Malina did not fail to recognize this genealogy—as her final theatre works reveal—perhaps the Movement did.