so far we've managed to come through with the help of our friends however it's a
constant anguish and certainly a great deal of depletion of our creative and
artistic energies to keep this going let's go attack close your eyes now I
want you to remember don't imagine remember it was then when you were
helpless and small that the history of the world if you look at the effects of
the living theater it's far and wide it's all it's in it's in television every
night it's in it's in the movies in every blockbuster techniques ideas social
themes even actors and actresses who pioneered their own personas on the
stage of the living theater are now big in the commercial realm
the New York Times had said if it said something like if there was a person
that were qualified to do the history of the world that is Judith Molina you
know or she does she has earned the right or something like that
who are you in history because we're all living in history right now some of us
are conscious of it most or not but this is like an incubator where the little
ideas get nurtured and and can flourish and then the fly out of this little
basement theater we have here and inhabit the the creative avenues of a
Broadway of Hollywood and points beyond
we talk of a revolution against a violent civilization and our vocation
is theater so tuning into the time our vocation becomes a theater of the
revolution mentally and aesthetically and artistically
Judith and Julian were very devoted to each other they they formed a very
interesting a relationship in art they had all kinds of people on stage some
of them were great actors and some of them were what we call non-actors but
you put a non-actor in a role that's real well it was a very hopeful time we
thought we were gonna you know we thought we were gonna make the world a
happier place we haven't yet but we're still working on it that's how in fact
the human race evolved was with an extended family your band that you
hunted and gathered with right and it was a few dozen people you know or a few
score people which is basically the number of friends that most people have
nowadays even in this very different world that we're not evolved for I
don't know I want to keep this space that's that's the big deal right now is
that we want a permanent home here Judith deserves a permanent home here
she's invested a lot of time and money and resources here it's like the old
oak tree but it's also the seed of a cultural movement that has had nothing
but good effect whether it's been to support the culture of commercial
arts or whether it's been to support ideas that are valuable to the world
community ideas of peace ideas of justice ideas of social equality and it's
not resting on its laurels you look at the company today Tom and me we're the
old-timers the the company today is is young bright brilliant beautiful
creative that's the future and it's not to keep Judith and Tom and Garrick and
Sheila going that we need the space it's to keep the fundamental ideas of the
living theater going through the the ongoing company ensemble that we have
today that's what we want to keep alive and what we're hoping here is that with
the cooperation of other people who are in the same boat and who are in the same
problem of how to keep afloat year year month to month week to week that if we
can get together and amalgamate a strategy for keeping each other alive
that maybe we can manage not to be so totally burdened with the financial
problem and we can pay a little more attention to the art that we all love
and that we really want to be doing I think we want to help each other
