Word: coriolanus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Year-Old Man. This character was a geriatric loser with a Yiddish accent who invented the wheel but made it square; someone else cropped off the corners and copped the fortune. Later he met Shakespeare ("What a pussycat he was; what a cute beard"). Typically, The Man invested in Coriolanus instead of Lear...
...play, Grass's first, depicts a caricatured Bertolt Brecht -- The Boss -- rehearsing an adaptation of Coriolanus in East Berlin, June, 1953. Brecht, and here Plebeians tells no lies, has transfigured Shakespeare's tragedy into a didactic tract for revolution. Shakespeare's silly tribunes of the people become radical ideologues; Coriolanus -- the "colossal" as he is described in Plebeians -- is reduced to a despot with a certain knack for winning battles. And quite as much as Brecht tampered with Shakespeare, Grass has tampered with Brecht. He has made him a patronizing, cynical esthete resigned to the failure of revolution...
...same events with the same condescending ambivalence. In the fourth act, when the uprising is over and The Boss at last permits himself to respond -- to its "defeat," as he says -- a full circle has been run. The audience has moved from wisdom, in sharing Brecht's rejection of Coriolanus, to instinctive contempt for Brecht's cvnicism in the face of actual revolt, to wisdom again in Brecht's recognition of his folly. But the last reaction is brief, for just as Brecht has sympathized with something that is over -- as much a part of history as Shakespeare and Coriolanus...
Whenever the Bach Society Orchestra performs, it leaves an ambiguous impression: it is never clear whether it is a chamber group, a small symphony orchestra, or simply a label under which disparate musical activities take place. The first half of last Saturday's concert ranged from Beethoven's Coriolanus Overture to the same composer's Wind Octet, Opus 103. Conductor Daniel Hathaway kept the orchestra precisely together throughout Coriolanus, but many of the opportunities for playing back and forth between parts were muffed. He might have had better luck at a faster tempo. However, the orchestra's total sound...
Names of students admitted, and of the Shakespeare play to be produced, will be announced before Thanksgiving. But the list of possible plays has already been narrowed down to Midsummer Night's Dream, Coriolanus, Measure for Measure, and Richard...