The Brig by Kenneth H. Brown  directed by Jonas Mekas performed by The Living Theatre 1964



Runtime: 67 mins



IMDb  tt0057899/



From the wiki:



The Brig is a play written by former U.S. Marine Kenneth H. Brown (born 1936). It was first performed in New York by The Living Theatre on May 13, 1963, with a production filmed in 1964 by Jonas Mekas. ... The play depicts a typical day in a U.S. Marine Corps military prison called the brig.



The Brig was revived in New York in 2007,[3] and it received an Obie Special Citation for its ensemble and director Judith Malina. In 2009, it was performed as an unlicensed production at the New World School of the Arts, Theatre Division in Miami, produced by Dean Patrice Bailey and directed by Matthew D. Glass. No legal action was taken.



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Summary from IMDb



   "A ultra-realistic depiction of life in a Marine Corps brig (or jail) at a camp in Japan in 1957. Marine prisoners are awakened and put through work details for the course of a single day, submitting in the course of it to extremely harsh and shocking physical and mental degradation and abuse. —Jim Beaver @prodigy.net>"





My notes



 The Living Theatre performed exerpts of this play as well as Paradise Now and a version of Frankenstein on their many tours.  I was fortunate to be present at one of them in the US Midwest.  Here the play which is in large part syncopated marching and performing rote daily duties is in costume and prison setting.  It was available (to my surprise) at Vimeo and I was able to capture it.





Notes written October 15th, 2020



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