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...Polinsky must be a very happy lady! Not only does she have two fine sons, Joel and Steve, but they are also actors, having a company of their own they call Theater Two and now a night of three one-act plays they call "Changes." Talented boys, Joel and Steve. Not only do the two of them play all the parts themselves, but they also act as their own artistic directors, adapt their material, stage it, you name it. What you might call a regular two de force...
...OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II. Oscar taught me that a song should be like a little one-act play, with an exposition, a development and a conclusion; at the end of the song the character should have moved to a different position from where he was emotionally at the beginning. This was how Hammerstein and Dick Rodgers revolutionized the American theater. I mean, God knows every opera composer dating back to Monteverdi knew about development, but it was never used in the musical theater...
...PANTHEON edition containing the first four long plays and five one-act plays, is the first volume of a projected complete English edition of all of Brecht's writings. It is based on the German Gesammelte Worke of Brecht, and contains variant readings for all the plays, as well as the author's notes on the performance, conception, and meaning of each play. The plays have been translated by a number of people, and the quality of the translations is vastly uneven. William Smith and Ralph Manheim, who translated Baal, Drums in the Night, and The Life of Edward...
...other translation in this volume, particularly those of the one-act plays, are entirely worth reading. While maintaining fidelity to the original, they have been put into a relatively artful English, one which is both readable and, I think, performable. In any case, Pantheon is to be congratulated for finally undertaking to produce a complete critical edition of Brecht, something this country has been lacking for years...
...sentimentalist's stew of short experimental films (some of which are the work of students at the Welles Film School); occasionally funny comedy bits by the bothers Polinsky; recitations (one gets something like "People are the true flowers, and it has been a most precious pressure to have temporarily strolled in your garden"; a song; and a play. The play is a two-man, one-act affair, written by Stephen and Joel's uncle, about two dogs, with amplified social overtones along the lines of Disney's Lady and the Tramp...