Word: freie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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William Shakespeare was powerless to prevent West Side Story. Tennessee Williams is luckier. When Director Charles Lang of West Berlin's Freie Volksbühne theater decided to stage a revisionist production of Williams' classic Streetcar Named Desire, he cast black actor Günther Kaufmann as the red necked Stanley Kowalski. Lang's other change was even more radical: rather than being raped by Kowalski, Blanche DuBois is seduced by him. Tennessee learned of Lang's plans just before the opening and immediately got an injunction to stop the performance. Ruling the show could...
...tenth World Youth Festival, a quadrennial gathering of the young sponsored by the Communist bloc. It attracted 25,000 leftist youths from 134 countries, including 300 from the U.S. They were joined by at least 100,000 blue-shirted members of the German Democratic Republic's highly regimented Freie Deutsche Jugend (FDJ), Free German Youth...