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...Rudolf Forster plays Macheath with perfect self-satiric detachment and ingratiating charm, and Carola Neher manages Polly's changing character very subtly. Despite my regrets about the movie's confusion both in purpose and details, I found it delightful. It captures the bitter, ironic, and warm humor of the original...
...Greenwich Village will notice differences; the film, for some reason, has fewer songs, and its mockery of capitalism is more savagely direct. The stage play rewards the outlaw Mack the Knife for his evil deeds merely with a title and a pension; in the film. Mackie Messer (Rudolph Forster) becomes the director of a bank. As Peachum's beggars prepare to break up a coronation parade (Threepenny Opera owes its inspiration to John Gay's Beggar's Opera, and the scene is London), someone remarks: "The rich have hard hearts -but weak nerves." The line is pure...
...help it raise money for taxes, friends of the London Library put several prized manuscripts on the block of a local auctioneer. The final handwritten draft of A Passage to India, the great West-confronts-East novel by E. M. Forster, was knocked down for $18,200-said to be the highest price ever paid for a living author's manuscript. The buyer, a Manhattan rare books dealer, also picked up (for another client) a hand copy of T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland, faithfully duplicated by the poet in his own script because the original-last seen...
Doing a stage version of E. M. Forster's novel, A Passage to India, is a little like trying to rewrite the Bhagavad-Gita as a sonnet. In the 36 years since its publication, one of the 20th century's great novels has again and again mocked the attempts of adapters; its widespread profusion of scenes and its intricate undertones to a clash of cultures long eluded the stage. Last week in Oxford, the professional Oxford Playhouse proved that the job had at last been done, and successfully. The adapter, in her first try at drama: Santha Rama...
...Oxford premiere last week, one of the most dramatic moments occurred after the curtain fell. Ancient (81), legendary Edward Morgan Forster made his way to the bright side of the footlights. Speaking from the stage, he praised Santha Rama Rau's treatment ("excellent and sensitive"), thanked the 18-member cast "not only for being so good but for being so many. Most modern plays have only a man and two women or a woman and two men. I tried to depict the diversity of human types...