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Like Bertolt Brecht and Max Frisch, Switzerland's Friedrich Duerrenmatt is one of those didactic dramatists who regard the theater as a classroom, the stage as a blackboard, the pen as a pointer and the playgoers as barely educable dolts. These playwrights take a dim view of man, dividing the species into two arbitrary categories: predators and prey, the fleecers and the fleeced. No one would deny that such characters are abundantly present in life, but to see the entire pattern of human behavior in these terms is one-eyed vision. As propounded in The Visit, currently being revived...
...CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE, by Bertolt Brecht. This is being done at Dartmouth this weekend and next, which is pretty far afield to be listed in The Crimson. The play is the most moving socialist statement I have ever read, so I'm listing it, just in case you have friends at Dartmouth...
...State Department official, is "to make it more human." That is probably a forlorn hope. Honecker's government will under no circumstance allow the people to be tempted by anything more dangerous than blue jeans or bluegrass. Peter Hacks, the most important East German playwright since Bertolt Brecht, sums up the plight of his countrymen in his drama The Troubles and the Power...
...CAME INTO THE WORLD, by Peter Handke, and THE JEWISH WIFE, by Bertolt Brecht. This double bill played for months on end last year. Friends of mine claimed it was outstanding although they couldn't understand the Handke and didn't like the Brecht...
...Disney characters in person. The U.S. of A.'s finest, much better than the exported stuff. (Someone's parading in Santiago tonight, too, but it isn't Mickey Mouse). Through Sunday at the Boston Garden. I CAME INTO THE WORLD, by Peter Handke, and THE JEWISH WIFE, by Bertolt Brecht. This double bill played for months on end last year. Friends of mine claimed it was outstanding although they couldn't understand the Handke and didn't like the Brecht. Opens tonight at 8:30 p.m. at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, 1151 Mass...