Judith Malina’s Beautiful Nonviolent Anarchist Revolution: the May 1968 Diaries

Authors

  • Kate Bredeson

Abstract

Kate Bredeson presents her edited collection of Living Theatre co-founder Judith Malina’s (1926–2015), unpublished diaries during the May 1968 uprisings in France, making available a new primary source that provides an important perspective on the intersections of anarchism, nonviolence, theatre, and revolution.

Author Biography

Kate Bredeson

Kate Bredeson is a theatre historian, dramaturg, director, and translator. Her project as a scholar and artist is to research, document, and practice the ways in which performance can be a tool for radical activism and protest. She is the author of three books, all published with Northwestern University Press: Occupying the Stage: The Theater of May ’68 (2018); The Inheritor, co-translated with Thalia Wolff (2024); and The Diaries of Judith Malina, (forthcoming from Northwestern, 2026). She is currently editing Lamp Back: Plays and Other Grievances by Anthony Hudson (forthcoming from Northwestern, 2026). Fellowships and awards include a Fulbright, NEH Summer Stipend, and a Furthermore Foundation grant, and residencies at Camargo in France, Maison Dora Maar in France, Bellagio in Italy, and Loghaven in the United States. As a dramaturg, she collaborates with choreographer Tahni Holt. Kate is Professor of Theatre at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, in the US.

Journal cover image in sepia of a World War One era soldier breaking a rifle in half

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Published

2025-11-18

Issue

Vol. 2025 No. 2 (2025): Anarchism and Peace History

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Articles

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