DIALEKTIKON
A play by Jacky Ivimy
Using music that draws on traditional folk, West African, general and world music sources, composed by Kate Luxmoore, and captivating design by Carl Robertshaw, Dialektikon is based on speeches from the 1967 ‘Dialectics of Liberation’ meeting, which took place at the Camden Roundhouse in north London.
Allen Ginsberg, Stokely Carmichael, RD Laing, and Herbert Marcuse amongst others came together to question war, violence, racism and our entire social,economic and political system, while the visionary scientist Gregory Bateson gave one of the very earliest warnings of the onrush of climate change. But they also came together in hope, to debate how we can make a better world, and it’s these glimpses of wisdom that speak even more compellingly to us today.
Jacky Ivimy’s provocative script brings the energy of these speeches back to the theatre in a tale of hope and questioning, as a young girl from today explores this past world to learn how to take action for all our futures. The play draws on transcripts of the event, film that was made at the time and other contemporary sources.
Dialektikon needs backing and material support to get its message out to as wide an audience as possible. If you're interested and can help, please contact Jacky.
Allen Ginsberg, Stokely Carmichael, RD Laing, and Herbert Marcuse amongst others came together to question war, violence, racism and our entire social,economic and political system, while the visionary scientist Gregory Bateson gave one of the very earliest warnings of the onrush of climate change. But they also came together in hope, to debate how we can make a better world, and it’s these glimpses of wisdom that speak even more compellingly to us today.
Jacky Ivimy’s provocative script brings the energy of these speeches back to the theatre in a tale of hope and questioning, as a young girl from today explores this past world to learn how to take action for all our futures. The play draws on transcripts of the event, film that was made at the time and other contemporary sources.
Dialektikon needs backing and material support to get its message out to as wide an audience as possible. If you're interested and can help, please contact Jacky.
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Among the main participants at the 1967 Dialectics of Liberation Congress were:
GREGORY BATESON - Anthropologist and systems theorist. JULIAN BECK - US actor, poet and founder of The Living Theatre. JOSEPH BERKE - US anti-psychiatrist, poet and radical educator. STOKELY CARMICHAEL - Black Power leader . DAVID COOPER - South African psychiatrist. JOHN GERASSI - Sartre’s ‘non-god son’ - journalist and academic. ALLEN GINSBERG - Beat poet. LUCIEN GOLDMANN - French philosopher and sociologist. PAUL GOODMAN - Veteran anarchist and polymath. EMMETT GROGAN - Actor, co-founder of the San Francisco Diggers. JULES HENRY - Sociologist, economist and anthropologist. FRANCIS HUXLEY - Anthropologist. Author of The Invisibles. RONALD D. LAING - Psychiatrist and author of The Divided Self . HERBERT MARCUSE - German philosopher and activist. GUSTAVE METZGER - Auto-destructive artist. GAJO PETROVIC - Yugoslavian philosopher. LEON REDLER - American anti-psychiatrist. CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN - Performance artist and filmmaker. SUSAN SHERMAN - American poet, editor of Ikon magazine. ROSS SPECK - Canadian pioneer in family therapy. PAUL SWEEZY - Marxist economist and sociologist. THICH NHAT HANH - Vietnamese Buddhist monk. |
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