THE LIVING THEATRE COMPANY.

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Frankenstein; [together with] -- The Antigone of Sophokles. A collection of ephemera from The Living Theatre Company's Dublin performances of Frankenstein and The Antigone of Sophokles: a programme for each play, six photographs of the staging for Frankenstein, and a notecard with handwritten typesetting for the programme. Each programme is heavily annotated in different hands, with corrections to the cast list of both plays. The title page of the programme for Frankenstein has several notes by the director Julian Beck.The experimental Living Theatre Company was founded in New York in 1947 by Beck and Judith Malina. They were the among the first in America to produce plays by European authors, including Bertolt Brecht, Jean Cocteau, and T. S. Eliot, and helped to originate the concept of off- and off-off-Broadway. Following tax disputes in the US, the group spent much of the 1960s touring Europe. Frankenstein was first conceived for the 1965 Venice Biennale, beginning with 30 minutes of silence. Beck planned for there to be no script, stating, "The action, the words, the effects will all be created by the company working together with the techniques we have developed amongst ourselves" (Beck quoted in Tytell, p. 208). The play was reworked several times before its staging in Dublin, including a five hour performance in Cassis.The photographs show Beck's cubist set, "A thirty-foot high iron grid of wooden platforms and steel piping, the space was divided into fifteen connected

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