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...right to brainwash a man if it makes him happy? Is the individual an anachronism in the 20th century? These are some of the questions posed with inventive theatricality in this 1926 play by Bertolt Brecht...
...right to brainwash a man if it makes him happy? Is the individual an anachronism in the 20th century? These are some of the questions posed with inventive theatricality in this 1926 play by Bertolt Brecht...
...Bertolt Brecht. First produced in 1926, and excitingly performed in this Eric Bentley production, Man uncannily foreshadows the process of brainwashing, the loss of identity, and the kind of society where every man wears a mask to hide the face he hasn...
...Bertolt Brecht. The term brainwashing did not exist in 1926 when the late great German playwright fashioned this marvelously exciting play on the subject. Since then, nature has copied...
Topicality becomes a problem for both directors, since each play was written with a timely, instructive purpose. Does Rosaldo really think Odets' desperate whining retains its topicality in these days of labor-management picnics and Taft-Hartley happiness? Does Fox think the strategic lessons which Brecht wants to impart in The Measures Taken are lessons which the Common Room audience could or should take seriously? If the answer in either case is yes, the directors failed on stage to explain why. Without that explanation their two weeks' toil seemed flat and offensive, or cute and inapplicable. Fox didn't sense...