Living Theatre
The Living Theatre is an experimental avant-garde theatre troupe, founded in 1947 and active in the 1960s counterculture, known for performances that dissolved the boundary between actors and audience, provoked confrontation, and often (like the 1969 Paradise Now) saw performers interrupting established events. Their radical staging tactics influenced broader performance culture of the era.
Claims that use this term
- Living Theatre faced felony prosecutions and eviction as avant-garde venues were shut down
- Living Theatre performances polarised critics and counterculture audiences
- Living Theatre performances could dissolve the boundary between actors and audience into chaos
- Living Theatre performers deliberately disrupted liberal intellectual symposia to provoke confrontation
- A rock star directly translated Living Theatre stage tactics into his own performance