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...awareness of any one individual; there is no distinct sense of differentiation. At rehearsals I was surprised at how little consciousness there was of how big whose part was and who was onstage. This is partially due to the selection of A Man's A Man. of course. Brecht incorporates the scenic and musical aspects as such important parts that, for example, the set designer becomes one of the most vital people in a production...
...would indicate a sort of alienation produced by shapes which we consider to be pop art shapes or comic strip shapes. And this is basically the underlying thing in A Man's A Man: this experiment which led me to believe that if I pushed the visual concept of Brecht into a pop art setting I could create the type of alienation effect that he created with he expressionism-so that in back of it there is this sort of experiment working in my mind...
THEATRON rated first page coverage in the Wellesley News; B A D and the Christian, Science Monitor both sent reviewers in their opening performance of Bertoh Brecht's. A Man's A Man last Friday. (Eli?? Norton was supposed to some but if he did. he didn't make ?? ?? the reception which followed.) But the show isn't playing ?? ????? ? and then it's ?? ?? ?? in the ?? which means that if you're not ?? the Loeb's in-crowed here. you probably don't know anything about this great new concept in college theatre. That's why I'm writing this feature...
...first production is entirely self contained except that a Brecht play is being used. A foot is in the door here too. The music was written by Bradley Burg. who is presently writing a musical with Eric Bentley; it is Mr. Bentley's translation of A Man's A Man that is being used...
...Chalk Circle performance, the company approaches the surrounding audience and, with different cadences, speak personal versions of Brecht's closing lines...