Word: bertolt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Exception and the Rule. Bertolt Brecht's drama about justice and humanity. The Caravan Theater, every...
...Exception and the Rule, Bertolt Brecht's drama about justice and humanity. The Caravan Theater, every...
Disneyland represents a total defeat of the anxiety that is Los Angles. It is a repository of American myths in their well-scrubbed korm, spotless and inert. It is also California's version of Bertolt Brecht's Mahagonny, the City of Nets. In this city, anyone can do anything he likes, all sensual pleasures are available, and there is no crime, except for one: the inability to pay, which is a capital offense. And Disneyland is also a global village: one entire world, with scaled-down continents (Disneyland, like the outside world has seven major bodies of water), all psychological...
...Screens, however, lacks the caste v. outcast tensions of The Blacks and the musky eroticism of The Balcony. In a Genetic mutation of Bertolt Brecht, the playwright doubly fails. He tries to apply the epical veneer of The Caucasian Chalk Circle to the theme of little people whipped about in a historical convulsion, in this case France's punitive struggle with Algeria. Brecht succeeded because he had a certain sympathy for the last-ditch valor of his little people even when he portrayed them as cagey sneaks. Genet fails because he regards all people as maggots...
...dramas: The Black Terror, "a revolutionary adventure story" by Black Playwright Richard Wesley, and Sticks and Bones, by David Rabe, about the family life of a blind Viet Nam veteran. In previews is a musical version of the Greek tragedy Iphigenia. And the workshop is preparing a production of Bertolt Brecht's In the Jungle of Cities...