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...Brecht on Brecht. The phone is a coiled snake, and the woman (Viveca Lindfors) picks it up fatalistically, as if she had already been poisoned by its venom. Her manner is calm, but her voice is brittle with inner hysteria. She cancels a bridge date, calls off a movie date. The talk is bright and chatty, but these are not social calls. The woman is foreclosing her life...
This scene from a full-length play, The Private Life of the Master Race, is a tessera in a jeweled mosaic arranged from the poems, songs, plays, letters and aphorisms of one of the 20th century's most remarkable playwrights, the late Bertolt Brecht. Put together with artful concern by George Tabori, perceptively directed by Gene Frankel, and acted with selfless intensity by a cast of six, Brecht on Brecht is an arresting example of offbeat off-Broadway. Close to stage rear, a portrait of Brecht peers out at the audience, eyes wily and skeptical, lips sealed...
...travesty on middle class values, e.g., thrift, family life, patriotism. He punctuates every third line of dialogue with an excremental word. Ubu Roi furnished the absurdists with their basic attitude: shock the bourgeoisie and slam the Establishment. In a 1923 play, In the Jungle of the Cities, Bertolt Brecht furnished the theater of the absurd with its basic theme. Two men, Shlink and Garga, engage in a fierce but motiveless contest, and Shlink tries to sum it up: "If you crammed a ship full of human bodies till it burst, the loneliness inside it would be so great that they...
...Concert (M-G-M). In a voice fresh as a sea breeze, Viennese-born Singer Schlamme conducts a folk tour mostly of Europe, avoiding the more familiar stops. Among her wistful best: The Praeties They Are Small, about the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, and that Weill-Brecht triumph of despair, Surabaya Johnny...
...Broadway, the temptation to titillate looms even greater, and is widely indulged. The Living Theater, which produced Jack Gelber's earliest, The Connection, his latest, The Apple, and Bertolt Brecht's Jungle of the Cites, is particularly guilty. The Connection deals with dope, jazz and all that evil stuff. It sells as a result. His new job, The Apple, is set in a coffee house that reproduces the visiting salesman's image of Greenwich Village...