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THE BRIG The Living Theatre\u2019s controversial staging of Kenneth Brown\u2019s play \u2018The Brig\u2019 terrified audiences with its stark depiction of brutality in a Marine Corps jail. This was truly physical theatre, and Mekas\u2019 camera gets right in the thick of it, creating a cacophonous document that so resembled cinema v\u00e9rit\u00e9 that it was often mistaken for reality.<\/p>\n Jonas Mekas, The Brig, USA, 1964, 68 min Jonas Mekas, Film Magazine of the Arts, USA, 1963, 20 min<\/strong> Also screening Friday 14 December at 8:40pm.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE BRIG Tuesday 11 December 2012, at 8:45pm London BFI Southbank NFT2 The Living Theatre\u2019s controversial staging of Kenneth Brown\u2019s play \u2018The Brig\u2019 terrified audiences with its stark depiction of brutality in a Marine Corps jail. This was truly physical theatre, and Mekas\u2019 camera gets right in the thick of it, creating a cacophonous document […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jonas-mekas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTuesday 11 December 2012, at 8:45pm
\nLondon BFI Southbank NFT2<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Edited by Adolfas Mekas. Produced by David Stone. Play by Kenneth Brown, adapted by Judith Malina and Julian Beck for The Living Theatre. With Warren Finnerty, Ben Israel, Rufus Collins.<\/p>\n
\nA commissioned newsreel of the New York art scene featuring Andy Warhol, Robert Whitman and Jasper Johns.<\/p>\n