Word: brecht
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...crowd of about 50 gathered Tuesday night at the Brecht Forum in Manhattan to watch the scene from “The Other Story of King Kong,” a performance hosted by United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS), a five-year-old student activist group of which Harvard’s Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) is a founding member...
...Ba’al, Brecht attempts to provoke the audience into responding both emotionally and intellectually to the scandalous behavior of his protagonist. By editing the original text down to a production time of just longer than an hour, Director Geordie F. Broadwater ’04 has perhaps realized Brecht’s intent more fully than the author did in his own lengthy original. Broadwater’s Ba’al is a constant, visceral experience for the audience...
...future, an evil capitalist controls the water supply, people have to pee in public toilets, and the cast never lets you forget it's all a put-on. Even with the jokey excesses, this musical by Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis--doing a pretty fair imitation of Brecht and Weill--is original, high-spirited...
Another influence right now is early Brecht. The early plays throw practicality to the wind. They can go from skyscrapers to a dock to the jungle. They are plays that you can’t stage literally but that wasn’t a concern for him in that period...
...nightclub headliner. Bobby said that, and a bit too much more: he expressed the thought that, by 25, he?d eclipse Sinatra. Darin wasn?t quite saying he was bigger than Jesus, but the boast betrayed a young man?s arrogance. Then he released a Sinatra-style swinger, the Brecht-Weill "Mack the Knife," which had enjoyed four Top 10 interpretations in the previous four years, including Louis Armstrong?s. Well, damned if Darin?s "Mackie" wasn?t the year?s top single, selling more than any single Ol? Blue Eyes had cut to that time; won Darin a Grammy...