Zoe Beloff The Days of the Commune Part 1: Scenes 1 5 (2012)

In the spring of 2012 I brought together a group of actors, activists and artists to perform Brechts 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 Zoe Beloff