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...COMMODITY and, for that matter, so are opinions. That's one of the messages amongst the poverty, prostitution and general decadence in Bertolt Brecht's In the Jungle of Cities. It's also one of the difficult ideas the actors in Brecht's play (they changed the name to just Jungle of Cities) must portray in the confines of the Loeb Experimental Theater...
Hardly a glamorous task since many Brecht characters require players to underplay, tone emotion down and frequently act like robots, the Ex players do a good job infusing personality into their characters and playing up psychological conflicts. But, they probably also inject too much spirit into the characters, watering down themes outside the psyches of the individuals...
...FIGHTING, COMMODITY SEX and broken family ties intend to make a social statement beyond the psychological wars going on between the characters. Namely, that the emerging modern city at the beginning of the 20th century brought some bad living conditions and, considering Brecht was a Marxist, an intensified capitalism that had extended not only into the lumber mills but also into people's sex lives. The proletarian hero George Garga's change into an authoritarian lumber owner also points to the submerged importance of the individual and the increased importance of the social role in which the individual acts. Garga...
Three plays are scheduled to run at the Loeb Theater during the summer. Antigone by Sophocles will open on June 27 and close July 13. Jungle of Cities by Bertolt Brecht will run from July 18 until August 3, Marsha Norman's Getting Out will be performed from August 8 until August...
...that James O'Neill (Eugene's father) adapted and toured in for 30 years, was just the first of Sellars' bold choices. In program notes, he proclaims that "the evening contains at least five different plays, each with its own method and tone"; cites influences as diverse as Bertolt Brecht and D.W. Griffith; and even warns patrons that "there is no seat in the house from which the entire production can be seen. After all, this isn't television...