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MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN by Bertolt Brecht...
...that all. The tone of the play is one of relentlessly evenhanded irony, both tragic and comic, a very elusive mood to sustain. Finally, there is Brecht's thesis, that war is a continuation of business as usual. He strips its so-called heroes and victims of their epaulets of duty, honor and grief and exposes them as avaricious brokers on the floor of a bloodstained international stock exchange...
Courage, Mary Lou Rosato surely embodies, but the heartrending passion of a mother is somehow lacking, possibly because Director Alan Schneider focuses unflinchingly on the acid worldly wisdom of the play. Brecht said he wanted play goers to judge Mother Courage, not to weep for her; and The Acting Company, which tours the entire U.S., deserves credit for trying it that...
GALILEO by Bertolt Brecht...
DIED. Arnold Brecht, 93, Prussian official who defied Hitler in the last free speech given in Germany's parliament; while vacationing in Eutin, West Germany. In 1933, when Hitler made his first address to the legislature, Brecht, who represented the largest state, made the reply. Brecht reminded the newly appointed Chancellor of Hitler's oath to abide by the constitution and the law of the land. Hitler stalked out of the meeting and four days later dismissed Brecht. Emigrating to America, Brecht joined the "university in exile," a haven for refugee professors at New York...