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Seven Plays, by Bertolt Brecht. A splendid sampling from the complex and remarkable German playwright whose works are posthumously sweeping the world's stages...
...League Man, running on a double bill with Samuel Beckett's lucid monologue, Krapp's Last Tape; Hedda Gabler, another excellent production in the Fourth Street Theater's Ibsen series; In the Jungle of Cities, a mystifying but thoroughly stimulating early play by Bertolt Brecht; The Balcony, French Playwright Jean Genet's superb argument that the world is a mammoth cat house...
Seven Plays, by"Bertolt Brecht. A splendid sampling from the complex and remarkable playwright, whose works are posthumously sweeping the world's stages...
...Brecht's basic theme-man selling his fellow man-was savage, but the telling of it was lusty, lyrical, joyously daft and poignantly tear-brimmed...
...Critic Kenneth Tynan wonders whether Brechtian drama "is a gigantic tribute to motherhood." Brecht's men are usually drunks, cynics or compromisers, his heroines "mostly instruments of salvation . . . Did Brecht, as rumor insists, spurn his father and worship his mother? If so, it supports the old hypothesis that the men who adore their mothers lean toward the Left, while those who idolize their fathers lean toward the Right." Whether or not Tynan is correct about Brecht, he certainly has the makings of a fascinating psychological parlor game...