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...apartment as launching pad for some fairly sordid affairs, the picture takes on a hard, unwinking look of irony. Again and again, Wilder seems to speak in the accents of one of his favorite cities, prewar Berlin, a tough, sardonic, sometimes wryly sentimental place whose intellectual symbol was Bertolt Brecht. Is Billy trying to say something serious about men and women, heels and heroes? Is he as a sort of puritanical pander, trying to instruct as he entertains...
...George Brecht, 30, of Greenwich Village has produced a Medicine Chest which is just what the title says it is-a medicine chest whose contents the viewer can rearrange and sniff at will, thus in theory entering into the artist's special world. Irving Kriesberg's Lovers XI 1957 is a double frame of moving panels that the viewer can change and thereby create "paintings" of his own. To make Grand-maw's Boy, Allan Kaprow, 32, produced a collage of worn pieces of cloth that were glued next to the fading photograph...
...Lincoln Square Theatre, which will be completed by 1961, will house a repertory drama group, plus a four year acting school. It will produce new plays and some contemporary classics of Shaw, Ibsen, and Chekov. Whitehead hopes to model the Lincoln Square Theatre after the East Berlin Brecht Theatre. This German theatre has its own company of writers, actors, and producers...
...frame, and the effect is never more Brechtian than when substantial sections look as if they were made out of old packing-crates. The folkish songs composed (or, sometimes, borrowed) by Caldwell Titcomb, and sung mostly by Johanna Linch, are also highly atmospheric. These are the familiar devices of Brecht's "Epic Theatre" staging, but it seems to me that in this production they are fused in a new way with the words of the play, to create an ambience none the less real for being more vivid, perhaps, in memory than actuality...
...always with Brecht, there is the sense of an original, individual talent, undiverted and uncompromising, stubbornly being true to itself. This sounds like a moral rather than an aesthetic virtue, but it insures that Puntila, though often repetitive and clumsy, sometimes even boring, is seldom commonplace...