Kicks & Co. 1961
Contacts and caption
Michelle Nichols, choreographer Donald McKayle and Walter Nicks on either side of Nichols
Oscar Brown show in New York City called Kicks & Co. in 1961. Host Dave Garroway turned over an entire broadcast of the Todayshow to Brown to perform numbers from the show and try to raise the necessary funds to launch it on the stage. Kicks & Co. is set on an all-African-American college campus in the American South during the early days of attempted desegregation. The character Mr. Kicks is an emissary of Satan, sent to try to derail these efforts in which the play's protagonist, Ernest Black, has become involved.
Contacts and caption
Michelle Nichols, choreographer Donald McKayle and Walter Nicks on either side of Nichols
Oscar Brown show in New York City called Kicks & Co. in 1961. Host Dave Garroway turned over an entire broadcast of the Todayshow to Brown to perform numbers from the show and try to raise the necessary funds to launch it on the stage. Kicks & Co. is set on an all-African-American college campus in the American South during the early days of attempted desegregation. The character Mr. Kicks is an emissary of Satan, sent to try to derail these efforts in which the play's protagonist, Ernest Black, has become involved.
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5 imagesAvant garde theatre group lead by Julian Beck and Judith Malina. 35mm color slides, Newsweek The Living Theatre is an American theatre company founded in 1947 and based in New York City. It is the oldest experimental theatre group in the United States. For most of its history it was led by its founders, actress Judith Malina and painter/poet. Most likely this is Paradise Now. Paradise Now, a semi-improvisational piece involving audience participation, was notorious for a scene in which actors recited a list of social taboos that included nudity, while disrobing; this led to multiple arrests for indecent exposure. The group returned to the U.S. in 1968 to tour Paradise Now, Antigone, Mysteries and Smaller Pieces, and Frankenstein. -
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