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...Caucasian Chalk Circle, by Bertolt Brecht, is a kind of pinko version of The Perils of Pauline. Grusha (Elizabeth Huddle) is a good soul, a simple kitchen maid who snatches up an infant princeling when the child is abandoned by the evil wife of the governor during a revolution in a legendary kingdom around A.D. 1200. With the baby strapped to her back, Grusha embarks on a series of adventures that include crossing a rotting bridge over a 2,000-ft. gorge with soldiery in hot pursuit, a marriage of inconvenience with a draft dodger, and a confrontation several years...
...Grusha lets go so as not to hurt the boy, and is adjudged the true mother for acting motherly. The moral: "What there is shall go to those who are good for it." This could prove that millionaires are best qualified to have money, but Brecht uses it to justify a decision by Soviet collective farmers some years back that old grazing land should go to fruit growers...
...PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE blends Brecht with the Theater of Cruelty, mixing in philosophy, revolution and insanity. A skin-tingling assault on the senses...
...PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE blends Brecht with the Theater of Cruelty, mixing in philosophy, revolution and insanity. A skin-tingling assault on the senses...
...Olivier was given the Old Vic theater on the south bank of the Thames and an annual grant of $364,000. He has since made it one of the finest stage companies in the world. Among its recent productions: Olivier's first Othello, Coward's Hayfever, Brecht's Mother Courage. Peter Hall was involved in a similar buskin-strap operation on the Royal Shakespeare Company. Before he took over in 1960, the group had restricted itself to Shakespeare at Stratford on Avon. Today, thanks to a $252,000-a-year subsidy, Hall has added a London theater...