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THAT WHIRRING NOISE you hear is Kurt Weill spinning in his grave. When he and Bertolt Brecht wrote Threepenny Opera, Happy End, and Mahagonny, they never dreamed that their operas would be performed in the ballroom of the Somerset Hotel, in front of a group of Scotch-sipping, fur-clad, overstuffed suburbanites. The producers of September Song have done to Weill exactly what Brecht complained had been done to Billy's Bawd House in Balbao: "They've made it bourgeois...
...Exception and the Rule. By Bertolt Brecht. Caravan Theatre, Harvard-Epworth Methodist Church, 1555 Mass. Ave., Cambridge. Fri., Sat., 9 p.m. $3. Thru...
...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...