Word: brecht
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sensitive Christian Weisbrod, at 26, had a bright future on the East German stage. He was the youngest member of the eminent Berliner Ensemble, the theater company famed for its productions of Bertolt Brecht's acid satires. Yet Weisbrod was not happy...
...best-drawing play has been Chekov's Uncle Vauya, which is averaging a paid attendance of 415. Brecht's Trumpets and Drums, which opened last week and is being shown only nine times, is expected to do as well...
...rolling and the company makes excellent use of Horace Armistead's sets, the best the Loeb has seen in a long time. The sets are lavish and contain a lot of the props necessary to keep the action rolling, but they permit the visible-to-the-audience scene changes Brecht called...
Mark Bramhall and Marjorie Lerstrom drew the two roles most chopped up by the crossfire between Brecht and Farquahr. Farquahr's Worthy is an amorous country gentleman of leisure and a bit of a buffoon; Brecht's is a shoe merchant who plans to sell his boots to the platoon Plume recruits, and his mental temperature oscillates between extremet canniness and extreme romanticism. Bramhall might have made the role gell a bit better by treating some of Worthy's protestations as posturing. Miss Lerstrom faces the same problem with Melinda and resolves it by throwing herself vigorously into the lady...
...good an American premiere of a Brecht play should not be allowed to perish after just nine performances; hopefully the Loeb will extend the run; perhaps the show could even be remounted once the school year gets underway...