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...Gade "Let It Be Me" (The Everly Brothers) from the French song "Je t'appartiens" by Gilbert Becaud and Pierre Delanoe "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" (The Tokens) from the South African chant "Wimoweh" "Mack the Knife" (Bobby Darin) from the German song "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer" by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill "My Way" (Frank Sinatra) from the French song "Comme d'habitude" by Jacques Revaux and Claude François "Skokian" (The Four Lads) from the Zulu song by August Msarurgwa "Strangers in the Night" (Frank Sinatra) from the German song by Bert Kaempfert "You Don't Have...
...rubies and emeralds. Compared to another A.R.T. Greek tragedy, their Bacchae of the 1997-98 season, also directed by Francois Rochaix, Antigone lacks explosiveness. Perhaps more effort went into their Bacchae because that play called for the loud dithyrambic energry that the A.R.T. often brings even to playwrights like Brecht. Antigone provides fewer opportunities for special effects. The one dance to honor Dionysus that comes late in the play is seized; it is more exciting than the rest of the play but has little to do with...
...translations of Homer, and like those works, this text scans fluidly, is easily understood when spoken and is often the epitome of "plain English." If this production lacks the cantankerous glitz of many A.R.T. productions and seems less relevant than 20th century productions of Antigone by Hasenclever, Anouihl or Brecht, it is because, like Fagles' translation, it is primarily concerned with bringing a classical text to life...
...Unfortunately, there's one major flaw in the production and his name is Brecht. For what would a musical from the mind of a Harvard student be without a dash of the self-aware, of meta-theater? According to the program notes, the show was originally intended to (nudge-nudge) "undercut itself and criticize its own genre, a film-noir that constantly threatens to take a sharp left at the road to reality." There is an incessant riffing on the stereotypes of "good guy" and "bad guy" and on the formulaic nature of film-noir movies in general. Such...
...play, now running at the American Repertory Theatre. "Full Circle" is loosely based on a 13th-century Chinese fable called "The Chalk Circle," but it owes even more to the "The Caucasian Chalk Circle," a play by early 20th century German playwright (and confirmed communist) Bertholt Brecht. Rather than simply updating Brecht's version for a new millennium, however, Mee undermines it by setting his story during the fall of the Berlin Wall...