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Seven Meditations On Political Sado-Masochism, 1974

This poster was made for an early performance of the collaborative theatre piece Seven Meditations on Political Sado-Masochism, staged in Boston. Initially debuted in 1973, the work was written after The Living Theater co-founders Judith Malina and Julian Beck, and other members of the company were imprisoned in Brazil on political charges and reportedly tortured by the Médici dictatorship. The radical and provocative piece was a durational exercise in ritual and ceremony, borrowing from a range of Biblical, classical Greek, and literary sources. Featured on this poster is actor Ivanildo Silvino Araujo on the “Parrot’s Perch,” demonstrating a torture scene in a Brazil production of Seven Meditations. At the time this advertisement was printed, the theatre was located at 6th Avenue and 14th Street in Manhattan.

Founded in 1947, The Living Theatre is the oldest operating experimental theatre in the US, located in New York City. The Living Theatre was established by Judith Malina and Julian Beck as an alternative to commercial theatre. During the 1950s and early 1960s, the theatre provided a platform for poetic drama stagings such as Stein’s work, that otherwise did not exist in New York at the time. Since its origination, The Living Theatre has staged close to one-hundred productions in twenty-eight countries on five different continents.

Offset print

Custom framing available in solid natural maple

$150.00