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Downtown, Godfather Al Pacino continues his run in Brecht's Arturo Ul. At the Charles playhouse, 76 Warrenton St., for what looks like a fair...
Book and Lyrics by BERTOLT BRECHT...
...Bertolt Brecht sought refuge in the U.S. in 1941 and went to Hollywood "to join the market where lies are bought...
Rueful Humor. There is something piquant and warmingly cynical in the spectacle of civilized man rejecting truth, and one of the best things about this production of Bertolt Brecht's Galileo is that it is full of rueful, at times raucous, humor. Joseph Losey (Accident, The Go-Between) staged the American premiere of the play 27 years ago, and for this film adaptation he has pruned some of Brecht's more arid ideological asides without substantially damaging the original text. Somewhat less comfortably, Losey flirts with Brecht's best-known theatrical devices: he uses a chorus...
Galileo is about both the unreason able fate of reason and the attempts to thwart and subvert truth. Knowledge and truth, for Brecht, would ultimately be nurtured and fueled by the proletariat, the working man being the true repository of hope. This seems a pretty romantic proposition, especially for a man who had dedicated himself to abolishing every article of romantic faith. But Brecht knew well, and portrayed with ruthless accuracy, the inbred conservatism of power, the stale air of the cloister that can smother the free, creative spirit. What makes Galileo impor tant, finally, is its ironic accounting...