[3] The Brig received three Obie Awards in 1964, for Best Production (play), Best Design (Julian Beck) and Best Direction (Judith Malina).
The play depicts a typical day in a U.S. Marine Corps military prison called the brig.
Brown spent 30 days in a brig for being absent without leave while serving with the Third Marines at Camp Fuji, Japan in the 1950s.
[4] The Brig was revived in New York in 2007,[5] and it received an Obie Special Citation for its ensemble and director Judith Malina.
In 2009, it was performed as an unlicensed production at the New World School of the Arts, Theatre Division in Miami, produced by Dean Patrice Bailey and directed by Matthew D. Glass.