Word: bertolt
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...bourgeois intellectuals invited to witness the playacting of inmates and our own theatre-going selves, who watch both the play itself and the intellectuals’ reaction to it. This idea of surveillance and reaction comes from the text—Weiss was influenced by the theories of Bertolt Brecht, a German playwright who believed in politicizing theater by highlighting its artificiality—and Leaf uses it fully...
...It’s not until Oppenheimer and history return to view that Hell makes sense, with a line slyly borrowed and modified from Bertolt Brecht’s “Life of Galileo”: “August 6, 1945: Heaven abolished.”The show doesn’t so much end as dissolve, which is meant as praise. Too often artists use History to de-fang the past—think “Schindler’s List”—but Videt finds resonance in events which remain indeterminate, unknown...
...been unsuccessfully working on a dissertation on perversions in Alice for long enough to have taken on a twitchy, Mad Hatter-like look herself. Then there is Phoebe's drama teacher, Miss Dodger (Patricia Clarkson), who approaches directing an elementary school production of Alice with the dedication of Bertolt Brecht. Miss Dodger wears her hair in severe braids wrapped around her head, which have apparently squeezed all affect...
...Waits When I listen to Tom Waits, it's as if I managed to get Bertolt Brecht, William Shakespeare and an old drunk vagrant to sit down and sing to me--a beautiful, heady mixture...
...evolution over the past few years.Elizabeth Bergmann, the Dance Program’s director and the founder of the “Dancers’ Viewpointe” tradition back in 2001, choreographed the third piece of the performance to Kurt Weill’s and Bertolt Brecht’s “The Threepenny Opera.” The music for the piece was performed by The Harvard Wind Ensemble, which was able to accompany the dancers due to the New College Theatre’s large orchestral pit.Bergmann found this first collaboration with a large-scale live...