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Brecht on Brecht. An oasis for parched minds where the playgoer may sip the aphorisms, songs, scenes and poems of a powerful master of 20th century theater...
Arthur Kopit. Mom never had it so bad. Amid the Venus flytraps, Barbara Harris glistens as a hilariously voracious sexling. Brecht on Brecht. An oasis for parched minds where the playgoer may sip the aphorisms, songs, scenes and poems of a powerful master of 20th century theater...
Brecht on Brecht. An oasis for patched minds where teh playgoer may sip the aphorisms, songs,scenes, and poems of a powerful master of 20th century theater...
Williams has peopled the U.S. stage with characters whose vibrantly durable presences stalk the corridors of a playgoer's memory: Amanda Wingfield, the fussy, garrulous, gallant mother of Glass Menagerie; Streetcar's Blanche DuBois, Southern gentlewoman turned nymphomaniac, and its Stanley Kowalski, the hairy ape in a T shirt...
...audience knows in advance that the hero will die, partly because it never gets to know and care about the man himself, and partly because he opts for suicide as a way out before he even struggles with the un bearable pain that might have purged and shaken the playgoer with pity and terror...