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The Viewpoints and the Secret of the Original Anarchist: Mary Overlie and the Undercommons

This article considers actor training in The Viewpoints as a site for the creation of alternative communities and practices beyond the ‘utopia of rules’ that regulates neoliberal culture. I trace what originator Mary Overlie calls Viewpoints’ ‘infectiousness’ through the culminating ‘laboratory’ for Viewpoints study, The Original Anarchist. Overlie’s figure of ‘The Viewpoints Original Anarchist’ trains the actor through what James Scott calls ‘anarchist calisthenics’ and ‘the anarchist squint’. Exemplary of the overall approach of The Viewpoints, The Original Anarchist laboratory trains the performer to discover a collaborative, even deferential relationship to the theatrical materials of Space, Shape, Time, Emotion, Movement and Story ‘on the horizontal’. The Original Anarchist laboratory is rooted firmly in the here and now of attunement, in which the actor’s secret is a practice of what Harney and Moten call ‘study’ prepares the actor for the ‘end’ of Viewpoints training – to ask the question, ‘What is theatre made of?’