Occupy Your Mind, Part 1

This episodes features performances from "Occupy Your Mind," an open-sourced living history of the Occupy movement.

“Occupy Your Mind” is an open-sourced living history of the Occupy movement. Anyone anywhere can participate by conducting an interview, performing it, and posting it to the Occupy Your Mind Tumblr. This past April, the Civilians and others came together to give a performance of “Occupy Your Mind” material. Here, Molly Camp performs Mary, who worked with the Yesmen on a public demonstration that caught Boomberg’s eye. Hadi Tabbal plays noted Occupy activist Amin, who talks about the future of the movement and how Occupy relates to past moments of global activism. Finally, Erica Rose plays Occupier Sandy, an activist who talks about being followed by the police.

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  • The Civilians

    The Civilians is a company that creates new theater from creative investigations into the most vital questions of the present. Through a number of artistic programs, the Civilians advances theater as an engine of artistic innovation and strengthens the connections between theater and society. An artist-led company, the Civilians creates and produces new theater and pursues its artistic mission through programs serving artists and the public. The company’s work is grounded in investigative theater, an artistic practice rooted in the process of creative inquiry that brings artists into dynamic engagement with the subject of their work. Artists look outward in pursuit of a question, often engaging with individuals and communities in order to listen, make discoveries, and challenge habitual ways of knowing. The ethos of investigative theater extends into production, inviting audiences to be active participants in the inquiry before, during, and after the performance. Since its founding in 2001, the Obie Award-winning company has supported the creation of 14 original shows, and its work has been produced at many theaters in New York, nationally, and internationally. Last season saw two highly successful shows: "Mr. Burns: a Post-Electric Play" at Playwrights Horizons, which was included in eight Top 10 of 2013 Lists, and "The Great Immensity" at The Public Theater. The Civilians’ work has been published by Dramatists Play Service, Oberon Books, Ghostlight Records and Playscripts, Inc.

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