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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...
...PIECES of modern drama approach The Threepenny Opera's degree of achievement on any of the several levels on which the play is totally triumphant. Bertolt Brecht's writing is an extraordinary synthesis of wit, imagination, political commitment, and human insight. Kurt Weill's brash, deceptively melodic music intensifies the force of the drama spectacularly. No adaptation could be more faithful than Mark Blitzstein's to the atmosphere Brecht and Weill sought to create, truer to their message or more sympathetic to their dramatic approach. But if the drama is to succeed on stage, these achievements must be equalled...
...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...
...Threepenny Opera opens Wednesday night at the Loeb. This is the first in a series of offerings by the Harvard Summer School Repertory, a company that is traditionally proficient and thoroughly professional. The Bertolt Brecht play is a modern classic, and a delight to see if the performance is sufficiently raunchy. Kurt Weill's music and Brecht lyrics give the show its real flavor; "The Ballad of Mack the Knife" is the tastiest number. The Shark bites Wednesday and Thursday at 8 p.m. at the Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St. Wednesday tickets are $4.95, a Thursday seat costs...
...Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals, at the Loeb--it's getting a good production, by all accounts, so if you like Restoration comedy (there's no accounting for tastes) it's probably all right. Which is probably more than you can say for some of the other things around...Bertolt Brecht's In the Jungle of Cities is mostly just incomprehensible (369 Performance Center, near Union Square in Somerville), Changes is evidently mostly just improvisatory (Theater Two, near Kendall Square), and vacation is evidently, mercifully, unbelievably, mostly just imminent, and high time...