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Mother Courage, by Bertolt Brecht, is an ironic firestorm of a play, raging over the subjects of war, history, ideology, heroism, vice and virtue. Brecht robs his 17th century peasant heroine of her three children without breaking her indomitable will to survive. In the daunting title role, Anne Bancroft is not quite the protean earth mother she strives...
Among the current crop of young actresses who have served at least a part of their apprenticeship on TV: Zohra Lampert, currently appearing with Anne Bancroft (another TV graduate) in Brecht's Mother Courage; Salome Jens, notable as well for her off-Broadway role in The Balcony and on-Broadway part in A Far Country; Collin Wilcox, who made a mark in TV's The Member of the Wedding, won excellent notices (along with Zohra Lampert) in Broadway's Look: We've Come Through. Of them all, none works more consistently, nor more consistently well, than...
SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 8--The Motion Picture Academy has made the following awards for 1962: Best Actor, Gregory Peck, for his role in "To kill a Mockingbird"; Best Actress, Anne Bancroft, for "The Miracle Worker"; Best Film, "Lawrence of Arabia"; Best Supporting Actor, Ed Begley, "Sweet Bird of Youth"; Best Supporting Actress, Patty Duke, "The Miracle Worker...
Though there are only five seniors on the squad, the youthful group (ten juniors 15 sophomores) does not lack a veteran core from last year's first eight. Returning lettermen include Captain and Senior Nick Bancroft, who rowed six last year; Senior Doug Robertson (four); Senior Spencer Bordon, (two); and Juniors Harry Pollock (seven) and Mike Dennis (stroke...
This first Broadway production suggests the stature of the play without fully measuring up to it. Anne Bancroft is more often the folksy Bronx matriarch than the flinty earth mother. Straining for Brechtian detachment, Director Jerome Robbins achieves a kind of laconic toughness in which the actors hold back, rather than banish, their tears. This misses Brecht's sense of the dire human predicament too deep for tears. Brecht tended to use sex for comic relief, but Barbara Harris' sly burlesque of a prostitute is the wrong kind of funny for this play. Eric Bentley's translation...