Seven Meditations on Political Sado-Masochism (2011)

A visceral examination of the social contract between the governed and the government, the play explores Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Six Houses of Bondage: Love, Money, Property, State, War and Death, with a seventh meditation on Revolutionary Change. The Living Theatre is an experimental company founded in New York in 1947 by Julian Beck (New York 1925-1985), painter and poet, and the actress and stage director Judith Malina (Kiel 1926), a student of Erwin Piscator. From the very beginning the group's activities bore the stamp of social and political commitment, imbued with a strong libertarian matrix. "Seven Meditations..." was created in 1973 by Julian Beck, Judith Malina and Friends.