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...dismisses class conflict as a factor of any interest in his jungle war. The older Brecht would never have abandoned his moral sense, as Brecht does here. In the Jungle of Cities shows the immature Brecht as a stylist without purpose, a mere player on words, the sort of playwright who would not be able to defend himself against the aesthetic questions asked by Worm (played with appropriate derision by William Barnum...
Ceremonies in Dark Old Men is by Lonne Elder IV, an up-and-coming black playwright from New York City, and you can find a review on page two, I believe. 7:30 at the Loeb...
...PLAYWRIGHTS CAN SATIRIZE their societies in two different ways. They can look at things at their worst, at their most blatantly divergent from the professed ideals of the people around them. Or they can take the professed ideals at their noblest and best, but without blinding themselves to the realities they mask, so that the realities begin to show through only gradually, in glimmers, in a way that's painful and impossible to dispute. The first method usually presents a clearer statement. Since its techniques are more direct, more didactic, more immediately biting, the criticisms the playwright presents leap...
Ceremonies in Dark Old Men is by Lonne Elder, a black playwright who's supposed to be one of the most promising playwrights around--at least, this play was very well received in New York a few years back. I haven't seen it or read it, though, so I can't say for sure. This weekend and next, 7:30 at the Loeb Ex, where things are always free but you sometimes need tickets in advance...
...nippy fall, 1973," and the ladies of the "Long Island Masque and Wig Society" gather to run through a rehearsal of their latest production - a musical based on an 1845 play, Fashion; or Life in New York, by Anna Cora Mowatt, who was America's first woman playwright. So this is the 19th century Americana of Mrs. Mowatt's quaint, forgotten classic refracted through the 20th century Americana of suburban matrons in amateur theatricals. Except that the players in Manhattan's McAlpin Rooftop Theater are all totally professional...