Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coup attempt; it also credited the martial law commander, Army Chief of Staff General Chung Seung Hwa, 53, with foiling the plot by arresting Kim and the other murderers. The investigation was evidently continuing. The day after the report was issued, Kim was taken to the scene of the crime by his interrogators to reconstruct his actions...
...scene in which Actor Jack Nicholson receives an electric shock treatment in the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest reinforced the notion that shock therapy is a cruel and barbaric anachronism. Partially as a result of the movie, the popular image of electric shock, which had been steadily fading in the U.S., grew even dimmer. Now shock treatment is regaining popularity, defended by many psychiatrists as a safe, humane and often dramatically effective method for treating some forms of mental illness, particularly depression...
Brecht, an incredibly ambitious and fecund playwright, borrows Eastern and particularly Indian techniques for Chalk Circle. The inserted songs, somewhat reedily rendered by Stark; the stage-manager as chorus, marvelously narrated by clarion-voiced Andrew Garrett; the use of scene titles--all wed form with geography to good effect. Director Thomas Seoh might have exploited this exotic influence more extravagantly with stilts or wire-hoops. Seoh seemed a bit diffident about taking such directorial prerogatives...
...CAST, although generally competent, particularly warms to their roles during the last scene, which-appropriately enough for a law school audience--takes place in a courtroom. From an epic style in the earlier portion of the play. Brecht shifts nimbly to parable. Grusha must contend with the haughty mother over who will gain possession of the child. Azdak, the magistrate-rogue, played with animation by David Miller, gives the "chalk-circle test." Grusha lets go of Michael because she doesn't want to hurt him "I brought him up! Should I tear him apart...
Reality assumes wild forms as present and past collide and then split apart like memories bouncing off the walls of the brain. Each scene is Charlie's remembrance of incidents of his youth--his last good book, his first good job, his parents' first and last fight, his first sex. Charlie Now (age 45) and Young Charlie (age 17) waltz together on stage. They bicker. The elder blames the younger for childhood failures and gets taunted in return for his failure in maturity...