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...replaced Louis Kronenberger, TIME'S distinguished first-nighter for 23 years. Kalem, 42, spent the preceding eleven years as a book reviewer for us, and will be remembered for his cover stories on Shakespeare, Boris Pasternak and James Gould Cozzens, as well as a memorable piece on Bertolt Brecht...
...Brecht on Brecht is an exciting peek at poems, letters, scenes and songs in the treasure trove of a 20th century master of theater. A splendid company of six perched on stools gives magic to this revue-styled evening...
...Brecht on Brecht is an exciting peek at poems, letters, scenes and songs in the treasure trove of a 20th century master of theater. A splendid company of six perched on stools gives magic to this revue-styled evening...
...Brecht on Brecht is an arresting two hours with the late great German playwright, a sort of literary and dramatic revue composed of selections from his poems, letters, songs, plays and aphorisms, acted out with selfless intensity...
...Brecht is exciting because he found his own voice and knew how to use it. He loved reality more than realism. He could define the ecstasies and agonies of love, work, exile, hope, life and death in images of savage bite and lyrical beauty. Among the vivid images in Brecht on Brecht: Anne Jackson miming the simple glories of the world for her unborn son; Dane Clark doing an amusing Method depth-probe of which hat to wear for a four-minute part: Lotte Lenya conjuring up the ghostly, ghastly Berlin...