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...Brecht on Brecht--A revue of sorts built around the plays, songs and other writings of The Man. At the THEATRE COMPANY OF BOSTON, 136 Mass...
...stars, but it must be rooted in the soil of "the rough theater." This is the popular drama of crude jests, false noses, stuffed bellies and fear in a faceful of flour. It is vulgar, grotesque and obscene, and it ranges from Punch and Judy to Bertolt Brecht, who argued that the theater should be like a prize ring...
Quite apart from his self-proclaimed roughness, Brecht is a particular idol of Brook's because of his contention that an audience should wake up and think, and that drama should be an instrument of social change. Brook accepts too uncritically the notion that Brecht wanted an audience to think for itself: no playwright was a more sedulous brainwasher. Despite his fierce ideological bias, however, there is no convincing proof that Brecht-or any other playwright-ever altered the course of a society. Reflecting the nature of a society is another question; all good drama does that...
...Measures Taken--Brecht. At the HARVARD EPWORTH CHURCH, 1555 Mass...
...Measures Taken--Brecht. At the HARVARD EPWORTH CHURCH, 1555 Mass...