Brig, The

The Living Theatre production of Kenneth Brown’s play ‘The Brig’, filmed on the stage of The Living Theatre and with the original cast. “‘The Brig’ is a raw slice of new American cinema filmed on an off-broadway stage by Jonas and Adolfas Mekas with such brutish authenticity that it won a Venice Film Festival grand prize as best documentary. Part drama, part polemic, with shock-wave sound and a nightmare air that suggests Kafka with a Kodak, the movie does exactly what it sets out to do – seizes an audience by the shirt-front and slams it around from wall to wall for one grueling day in a Marine Corps lock-up.” – Time Magazine