Julian Ronald Beck

Julian Beck

Julian Beck (May 31, 1925 September 14, 1985) was an American actor, director, poet, and painter. Beck was born in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan

Paradise Now; Collective Creation of the Living Theatre

The Life of the Theatre: The Relation of the Artist to the Struggle of the People

City Lights Journal Number Three

THE LIFE OF THE THEATRE the Relation of the Artist to the Struggle of the People

Theandric: Julian Beck's Last Notebooks (Contemporary Theatre Studies)

Written mainly in the ten years up to 1985, the year of Julian Beck's death, Theandric is very much about fighting death. It is a kind of testament, an ultimate statement on "the philosophy and metaphysics of the theatre", a sub-title he frequently used for Theandric, in which his life-long concerns...

Living in Volkswagen Buses

Poetry. "Rhythmically I have tried to capture the tempo of my time, its ecstasy, its hardness, its lyricism, its great variety. The songs are musical, and I took a seat with the rhythm, its fluctuations, and the way in which they make music, which reaches in each poem its own order: repetitions, cho...

The Life of the Theatre

"He did what he wanted to do: with his wife Judith Malina he created the Living Theatre . . . Not an ivory tower, however: a headquarters of revolution, a guerrilla theater, though a pacifist one . . . He didn't get the kind of death he wanted . . . but . . . he had had the life he wanted . . . When...

We the Living Theatre

Drama, Plays, Theatre, Literature, Reading, Learning

Julian Beck: Paintings and Drawings, 1944-1958

Catalogue of an exibition at the Ubu Gallery from April 28 to June 9, 2001.