Word: brecht
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...Caravan theatre preaches well; the use of flash-back and rhythm punctuate Brecht's main points. The Caravan even does us the dubious favor of placing Brecht's play in contemporary perspective; the performance begins with a "prologue by an actor," setting our own world's good guys against the bad, showing the present relevance of Brecht's rule. (Penn-Central executives get light jail terms for stealing thousands; George Jackson gets killed for stealing seventy dollars). The Caravan performance is only adequate; Aili Singer as Langmann is vicious, and with precise line readings and movement completely dominates the stage...