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...opinion, TIME missed the point about Bertolt Brecht. The U.S. Congress and American journalism regarded him as both stubborn and Marxist. But he wasn't. In his lifelong search for a politico-economic system that would not suppress but enlighten human goodness, he became disenchanted with Marxism, as he had earlier become disenchanted with the capitalism of his day. Brecht's view of mankind was optimistic. His search sprang from a comparison of the goodness of man with the badness of man's economic and political systems. His drama demands that we think about the "existence problem...
...these playwrights are obliquely related to the greatest theatrical influence of the 20th century, though perhaps not its greatest playwright-Bertolt Brecht. Despite his seemingly stubborn Marxism, Brecht is intimately concerned with the existence problem. His plays are drenched in fatality, and to call fate "economic necessity" is to change the name without changing the game. While they do not all belong to the theater of the absurd, these playwrights possess that initial recognition of absurdity that, Camus argues, comes to one in the midst of deadening routines. In the opening scene of John Osborne's Look Back...
...Harvard Dramatic Club will revive Bertolt Brecht's The Good Woman of Setzuan during Commencement week...
Spaethling's specialty is German literature of the 19th and 20th centuries last spring he taught a course on Bertolt Brecht, and he will teach a course on Brecht, Kafka, and Junger in this year's summer school...
...Caucasian Chalk Circle, by Bertolt Brecht, is a kind of pinko version of The Perils of Pauline. Grusha (Elizabeth Huddle) is a good soul, a simple kitchen maid who snatches up an infant princeling when the child is abandoned by the evil wife of the governor during a revolution in a legendary kingdom around A.D. 1200. With the baby strapped to her back, Grusha embarks on a series of adventures that include crossing a rotting bridge over a 2,000-ft. gorge with soldiery in hot pursuit, a marriage of inconvenience with a draft dodger, and a confrontation several years...