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...Brecht on Brecht. This revue-styled evening of aphorisms, songs, scenes and poems is a generally exciting introduction to a master of 20th century theater...
...very well, but Actor Hugh Griffith, 50, a 1960 Oscar winner for his comic role as the chariot-racing Sheik Ilderim in Ben-Hur, laid it on a mite thick. Standing atop a wooden box in London's Aldwych Theater for a mock hanging scene in Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Griffith slipped, felt the noose tighten round his neck, and blacked out gurgling. First came the smelling salts, then the brandy. Ten minutes later the beetle-browed Welshman was back-and with a hangdog look, remounted the box to go on with the show...
...Brecht on Brecht. An oasis for parched minds where the playgoer may sip the aphorisms, songs, scenes and poems of a powerful master of 20th century theater...
Arthur Kopit. Mom never had it so bad. Amid the Venus flytraps, Barbara Harris glistens as a hilariously voracious sexling. Brecht on Brecht. An oasis for parched minds where the playgoer may sip the aphorisms, songs, scenes and poems of a powerful master of 20th century theater...
...orchestra of only 30 players was heavy on winds rather than strings, managed to re-create with remarkable skill the tinny, strident sound of oldtime jazz bands. The opera's cast of criminals, procurers and prostitutes were re-creations of the fantasy Americans dreamed up by Socialist Brecht. Their anarchic world was a caricature of turn-of-the-century capitalism...