Word: bentley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bertolt Brecht. This Eric Bentley adaptation of a 1926 play by the late great German playwright uncannily prefigures the process of brainwashing. Amid chalky white masks, silent-movie captions and honky-tonk pianos, a sardonic 20th century dirge is sounded for the death of the individual...
...Bertolt Brecht. This Eric Bentley adaptation of a 1926 play by the late great German playwright uncannily prefigures the process of brainwashing. Amid chalky white masks, silent-movie captions, and honky-tonk pianos, a sardonic 20th century dirge is sounded for the death of the individual...
...This Eric Bentley adaptation of a 1926 play by the late great Bertolt Brecht proves a black-biled comedy of terrors and an uncanny anticipation of brainwashing in which the hero is transformed from a simple-minded Irish laborer into a blood-bloated killer whose only self is the print on his identity card...
Hancock based his production on Brecht's original text written in the 1920's and adapted by Eric Bentley. Howard Taubman of the Times noted that "his (Bentley's) English accomplishes the feat of making Brecht seem at home among...
Critic Eric Bentley once nominated him for a Nobel Prize. Theatre Arts printed his Pantagleize last summer, with an awed introduction by young Playwright Jack Richardson. As is necessary for any great name about to be "discovered," he has his complement of American professor-knights, who, while constantly deploring a world that has taken insufficient notice of their writer-king, are always ready to skewer anyone else who dares to mention the hallowed name...