In the spring of 2012 I brought together a group of actors, activists and artists to perform Brecht’s play "The Days of the Commune" in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street. Thinking about OWS as a radical theater of the people, inspired me to conceptualize this project as a “work in progress” in a sense that all social movements are a work in progress and I wanted this work to be visible. Rather than stage the play in a theater, we performed it scene by scene in public spaces around New York City starting in Zuccotti Park. These public rehearsals ran from March through May, the months of the Paris Commune's brief existence in the spring of 1871.
More information about this project at thedaysofthecommmune.com
