Judith Malina (1926-2015) was born in Kiel, Germany but emigrated to New York with her parents at the age of three to escape the clutches of nazism. Her mother was a former actress and her father a conservative rabbi. Judith took an interest in the theatre from an early age and started attending the classes of the radical German director Erwin Piscator at the New School for Social Research in 1945. Both Piscator’s ‘epic theatre’ and Antonin Artaud’s ‘Theatre of Cruelty’, which aimed…
