Judith’s first public protest was directed against nuclear weapons. Their half-century of committed activism still serves as a model. Despite the constant shortage of physical space to rehearse and perform, they produced plays by radical playwrights like William Carlos Williams, Antonin Artaud, Paul Goodman and Tennessee Williams.Ĭatholic Worker pacifists like Dorothy Day and anarchists like Goodman greatly influenced both Judith and Julian. Cultural foundations offering support were non-existent. She and her husband Julian Beck established The Living Theatre in New York City in 1947 when they were in their 20s.
Her efforts to achieve this ideal resulted in her arrest for civil disobedience in twelve different countries. Conversations with Judith Malina rarely ended without her advocating “the beautiful nonviolent anarchist revolution.” Strategy to realize it always followed.
