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Norman Mailer does some more public paddling in the diminishing pool of his soul (in Paris Review). In Evergreen's all-German issue, Marianne Kesting reminisces about a seven-year-old visit to the late German playwright Bertolt Brecht...
...whole manner was anti-academic, and the students loved it. This was no stuffy professor teaching out of a textbook, but a real live pro who had quit the Yale Drama School, made it the hard way in New York, and now was still interested in Miller and Brecht--just like them...
...Death of Tragedy, by George Steiner. Well equipped with caustic wit as well as learning, the author ably follows his subject from Aeschylus to Brecht...
...present version of the play has the influence not anticipated by Brecht himself: that of Mr. Eric Bentley, the translator, or "adaptor" as the program has it. Mr. Bentley's translation of a difficult text is a fair one, and a clean one, but he has seen fit to spruce up the play by adding several songs and an opening and closing chorus-line number more reminiscent of the English than of the Bavarian music hall...
...will not, can not, indeed, comment in extenso on the staging: the exigencies of Summer News publishing forced me to attend the dress rehearsal. Most of he acting will no doubt improve; much must it damn well better. "All feelings must be externalized," Brecht himself osculated to his actors: but this does not necessitate the nimble marionette mannerisms that too often characterized Peter Gesell's portrayal of the unmetamorphosed Galy...