Word: brecht
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Caravan Theatre-Bertolt Brecht's Chalk Circle. 1555 Mass...
...Brecht wanted to slap an audience into intellectual awareness so that it would correct the evils of the age, Artaud wanted to gore it into a blood-dripping emotional awareness of the anguish of the age; Among those who have most notably tried to follow Artaud's precepts in the modern theater are Julian Beck and Judith Malina's Living Theater, British Director Peter Brook (Marat/ Sade) and Director Jerzy Gro-towski with his Polish Laboratory Theater. The Living Theater is sloppy, Brook is marvelously disciplined but a trifle too cerebral, and Grotowski combines fantastic discipline with lacerating...
SCHWEYK IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR is not altogether unlike the Good Soldier Schweik of W.W.I, but Bertolt Brecht made him a subject of even broader comedy. Woodstock...
...Everything in the Garden Arthur Miller is represented by The Price and The Crucible, Tennessee Williams by Kingdom on Earth, and Eugene O'Neill by A Moon for the Misbegotten. There was Anabaptist and King John by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, three Shakespeares, two Sartres, Sophocles' Oedipus, Brecht's Threepenny Opera, Shaw's Pygmalion, a Renaissance knockabout by Niccolò Machiavelli, a late 19th century melodrama by French Primitive Painter Henri Rousseau, works by Wilde, Sheridan and Molière-besides three plays by Czech author Karel Čapek and two carminative political satires by young...
MOTHER COURAGE, Bertolt Brecht's treatise portraying common man as war's much-buffeted victim, will be modernized for its presentation in the bucolic setting of Castleton College, Castleton, Vt. (July 15-26). George Tabori directs a cast that includes Wife Viveca Lindfors as Mother, Sam Schacht, Rudy Bond, Julie Garfield and Pat Suzuki as the whore, Yvette...