GME Notes with Sadness the Passing of Kenneth Brown, Author of THE BRIG

Kenneth Brown, a Brooklyn native, rattled by his brutalizing experience in the brig for insubordination while enlisted in the U.S. Marines, converted his harrowing experience into the hyper-realistic play THE BRIG, successfully produced Off-Off Broadway in 1963 by the Living Theater, and brought to the screen in 1964 by Jonas Mekas.

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Kenneth Brown in an undated photo.

Gartenberg Media distributes THE BRIG, and many other important films by Jonas Mekas to the North American educational market as downloadable DSL files and on DVD and Blu-ray.

A SCENE FROM THE MOVIE THE BRIG (1964, 65 minutes), DIRECTED BY JONAS MEKAS