Word: brecht
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There was a sly gutsiness about this whole production that gave me the feeling my responses were being tampered with. The actors kept ducking out from under the characterizations I tried to pin on them, and shrugging off my sympathy. I'm no expert on Brecht, but I understand that's what's supposed to happen. If it isn't, director Timothy Mayer has certainly produced something intriguing...
Harvard's Gilbert and Sullivan Players will depart from their traditional fare to produce in April The Threepenny Opera, by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht...
Written by Brecht and set to music by Weill when both were young artists, The Threepenny Opera was first produced in Berlin in 1928. It depicts the chaotic existence fostered by the tottering Welmar Republic. The riots which the production provoked led to its suspension by the Nazis, and jeopardized the security of its authors, both of whom were later forced to flee Germany...
...incomprehensible guilt. German artists, though scorned by the Nazis, learned to turn the other cheek. The cheekiest was the late painter Max Beckmann, who wrote that he wanted to give "our fellow men a picture of their fate, and this can be done only if you love them." Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill could have supplied the words and music...
...animated documentary that grins like a skull at the follies of World War I. Adding humor and song to pity and terror, Lovely War achieves a catharsis hardly to be believed of a musical. The hand that guides it is Joan Littlewood's; the guiding spirit is Bertolt Brecht...