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...plays this summer at Agassiz have all been refreshingly irreverent. Aristophanes got new music and lyrics. The Trojan Women became twentieth century refugees. Measure for Measure was liberated from standard period staging. The Agassiz directors, Thom Babe and Timothy Mayer have cut, adapted, rewritten. Composer Bradley Burg has scored electric guitars in a domain usually restricted to recorders...
...with the production of Bertolt Brecht's early play In the Jungle of the Cities, the Agassiz players have grown strangely timid. Thom Babe has directed a lucid, often striking play. But he and his associates, unawed by the Greeks and Shakespeare, are frightened of Brecht. Babe hasn't dared to cut or revise some pointless speeches and scenes. The play is too long, the play's overall impact, too weak...
...Jungle of the Cities should be more than a well-acted mood piece with occasional flares of brilliance. It is regrettable that the Agassiz company saw fit to drop their imaginative critical judgment and stand with unquestioning awe in the temple of Brecht. The Goodhead himself probably thumbs his nose in the Holy of Holies...
...Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare opens at Agassiz Theatre. There will also be performances on August...
...Jungle of the Cities opens at Agassiz Theatre. There will also be performances on August...