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...theater: a rigid separation between the stage and spectator. This separation, or alienation, prevents the spectator from identifying with the characters. Brechtian theater presents man for scrutiny, to entertain and instruct the spectator. Didactic in intent, it forces him to observe, make decisions, and act on them. Under R.J. Cutler's direction, Threepenny Opera shines with all the power and excitement inherent in Epic theater...
...overall conception of the production is weakened by director R.J. Cutler's difficult struggle for a compromise between the Theater of Alienation and the Theater of Empathy. While well-acted, this production of Threepenny Opera lacks a social awareness of the play's context intrinsic to the epic theater. As if fearing to offend an audience too used to pleasurable theater and unwilling to be taught, Cutler has dismantled most of the instructive apparatus of Brecht's theater. But for the second Threepenny Finale, the placards bearing song and scene titles--the visual, literal representation necessary for didacticism--are wanting...
...between the three branches of U.S. Government would be put thoroughly askew. The Supreme Court would be supreme no more. The "supremacy clause" of the Constitution, declaring that document to be the prevalent law of the land, would become a "nullity," in the word used by Tampa Lawyer Edward Cutler, who is lobbying against the New Right proposals for the American Bar Association. According to Wisconsin's Democratic Congressman William Kastenmeier, the enactment of even one measure that would cripple the Supreme Court in even one area would be a dangerous precedent-an invitation to Congress to turn itself...
This production, under the direction of R. J. Cutler, respects those silences, and that's one of the major reasons it works so well. Cutler, too, has a balancing act to perform--that thin line between silence and stasis--and for the most part he pulls it off. In the tiny space of the Loeb Ex, with nothing but a white backdrop, an antique lamp, an overstuffed chair and elegant lighting by David Van Taylor, the action begins simply as the detectives confront the eerie outline of a body on the floor. This outline eventually becomes almost a character...
...budget-slasher David A. Stockman; all other cabinet-level positions went to establishment administrators, bankers and the occasional crony. It's happened before, an aide says, and it'll happen again. "Jimmy Carter spent 1976 campaigning against Washington, and look what he ended up with: Cy Vance, Lloyd Cutler, Harold Brown. When it comes time to put together a government, you go to people with experience, who know how government works and how to make it work...