Word: bertolt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Book and Lyrics by BERTOLT BRECHT...
Rueful Humor. There is something piquant and warmingly cynical in the spectacle of civilized man rejecting truth, and one of the best things about this production of Bertolt Brecht's Galileo is that it is full of rueful, at times raucous, humor. Joseph Losey (Accident, The Go-Between) staged the American premiere of the play 27 years ago, and for this film adaptation he has pruned some of Brecht's more arid ideological asides without substantially damaging the original text. Somewhat less comfortably, Losey flirts with Brecht's best-known theatrical devices: he uses a chorus...
Similar reactions are inspired by several theater groups that are staging venomous musical satires of the Papadopoulos regime and the American CIA, which is popularly regarded as having propped up the junta. The works of German Playwright Bertolt Brecht, many of them banned by the colonels for their Marxist themes, are also enjoying a revival. Bookstores are stocking titles like Carlos Marighella's manual The Urban Guerrilla; a large readership is virtually guaranteed for any work by or about Che Guevara...
They moved into an apartment near Detroit's Wayne State University campus. During the day Joni read Bertolt Brecht and Saul Bellow. At night, after completing their cabaret act, the Mitchells were hosts for boisterous all-night poker games often attended by Gordon Lightfoot, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Ramblin' Jack Elliott. But after one year the marriage began to crumble. Joni demanded more independence from her husband, who accuses her of deliberate scene stealing...
...Threepenny Opera, premier production of the Harvard Summer School Repertory Theater's 1974 season, begins its first weekend of performances tonight and tomorrow. It's hard to imagine this professional production of the Bertolt Brecht classic being very bad. For the official line see Peter Shane's review which appears elsewhere in this issue. The curtain goes up at 8 p.m. tonight; tomorrow's show starts at 9. The Loeb is charging $5.95 a head for the weekend performances, so you may do well to wait for one of the cheaper weekday showings...