Word: brechtian
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Boston’s own the Dresden Dolls perform their unique and enthralling Brechtian punk cabaret. The girl piano player and boy drummer duo are touring off their stunning 2003 self-titled album. With vivid theatrical costumes and seductively pretentious rock, their live show is one of the most visually and musically exciting out there. Tickets $13. 8 p.m. Axis, 13 Lansdowne Street, Boston...
Since winning this year’s WBCN Rock and Roll Rumble, the Dresden Dolls have ridden a wave of anticipation. Proving the duo’s staying power, the unique Brechtian songwriting of their self-released album holds its own without benefit of the decadent face paint and cabaret costumes that the band flaunts onstage...
...before you go home for Thanksgiving, don’t forget to head back to the Ex for Cradle Will Rock. You’ll likely be thankful for the energetic direction in this “Brechtian labor musical” about unionization in early 20th-century Steeltown, USA, directed by Patrick Hosfield ’05. Think Newsies, minus Disney, Christian Bale and that obnoxious “Seize the Day” song, but with a considerably more punchy and heart-wrenching dose of social commentary. Still frighteningly relevant today, Cradle Will Rock will take over...
...love, but told with wit and imagination, the stories always have an underlying theme of friendship and goodwill. Drawn with a whimsical simplicity based heavily on the Disney cartoons, Tezuka has a loopy sense of humor. He will sometimes insert nonsense characters into a scene just for fun. One Brechtian moment has Mr. Mustachio kicking a doodle off the page, yelling, "Hey! This is an important panel in the strip...
Whereas Larson's show is sweet and cuddly, Urinetown is blunt and in your face. This Brechtian fable--a sellout hit in its tiny off-off-Broadway theater that is moving to Broadway in August--is set in a city where the water shortage is so dire that private toilets have been outlawed. The play overdoses a bit on winking self-references ("Everything in its time, little Sally," one character says to another. "Nothing can kill a show like too much exposition"), and the promise of sharp political satire is lost on the way to a generic cartoon...