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WEILL: The Rise and Fall of the City Mahagonny (Columbia K3L-243). The most elaborate of the collaborations by Weill and Bertolt Brecht, with the great Lotte Lenya heading the cast...
MINNESOTA THEATER COMPANY, Minneapolis. The three opening productions, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, John Arden's study of political dissent, Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, and The Master Builder, Henrik Ibsen's treatise on creative genius, rotate through August. Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui opens Aug. 6, and Merton of the Movies, by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly, joins the repertory Sept...
...President Kenneth Kaunda. The prayer was read by Tanzanian Evangelical Lutheran Bishop Josiah Kibira, resplendent in a stole whose tribal designs stood in dramatic contrast with its white silk background. The program for the 16-day conference included everything from Bible study to some readings from Bertolt Brecht's play St. Joan of the Stockyards...
Died. Teo Otto, 64, one of the world's leading stage designers, whose symbolic sets graced theaters from Hamburg to Haifa; of a heart attack; in Frankfurt, West Germany. A member of the Berlin group that included Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weill, Otto fled Hitler's Brownshirts in 1933, set up camp in Zurich where he staged a Richard III that would either "win the Zurich public or send us back to the concentration camps." The play was a success, and Otto went on to stage such hits as Figaro and The Three-Penny Opera...
...mock-revolutionaries, who cannot commit a terrorist act without knocking off the wrong man, nor Godard, who fails as a satirist because his preening pupils, full of the pop and pap of the New left, are already a satire on themselves. Despite sonorous allusions to such major artists as Brecht, Goethe and Dostoevsky, La Chinoise is only, like its subject, scan-deep: dazzling on the surface and virtually vacuous beneath...