The Summary and credits for this unviewed film were based on reviews in the 5 Feb 1984 NYT, the 7 Feb 1984 Village Voice, the 7 Mar 1984 Var, and the 6 Sep 1984 LAT.
       According to NYT, the documentary includes the following acknowledgements: "Living Theatre productions directed by Judith Malina and Julian Beck. 'The Yellow Methuselah' directed by Hanon Reznikov. Texts from 'The Diaries of Judith Malina' and 'The Life of the Theatre' by Julian Beck."
       European locations for the performance clips in the documentary included Italy, France, and Germany. The picture was filmed with hand-held cameras and includes black and white sequences, as well as newsreel footage.
       The documentary’s one-week opening at the 8th Street Playhouse in New York City coincided with the Living Theatre’s first stage production in the U.S. since 1969, when co-founders Julian Beck and Judith Malina became self-imposed exiles in Europe due to complications with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). According to the New York Public Library’s (NYPL) Living Theatre archive, the troupe performed Julian Beck’s The Archeology of Sleep, as well as Antigone, The Yellow Methuselah, and The One and the Many, at the Joyce Theater.
       The film’s Los Angeles, CA, premiere on 6 Sep 1984 at the Nuart Theatre was a fundraiser for Julian Beck, who was suffering from cancer. The documentary continued its run at the Nuart through 10 Sep 1984. Beck died one year later at age sixty. The Archeology of Sleep was his last play.
       The NYPL archive and Beck’s 17 Sep 1985 NYT obituary clarified the nature of Beck and Malina’s dispute with the IRS and the reason for their departure from the U.S. In the early 1960s, the Living Theatre’s NYC venue on 14th Street was shut down by the IRS because Beck and Malina owed back taxes of up to $23,000, and in 1964, a Federal Grand Jury indicted the couple for their protests against the eviction. Upon receiving a guilty verdict, the couple was permitted to leave the country for pre-scheduled shows in England before serving their sentences. After returning to the U.S. and serving time in early 1965, Beck and Malina left the country again, joined their troupe in Europe, and became self-exiled. They were later imprisoned in Brazil for possession of marijuana, then returned to America, performing in the streets of Pittsburgh, PA. In 1975, the couple brought the Living Theatre back to Europe, and made their home base in Rome, Italy. Judith Malina told the NYT that she and her husband had long been persecuted for their anti-establishment beliefs and radical performances. She estimated that they were imprisoned on twelve separate occasions for petty crimes such as refusing to “take part in a civil defense drill” and for indecent exposure during a 1969 performance of Paradise Now in New Haven, CT.