Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Nude Chanteuse Sings Brecht, Kids Hawk ‘Hair’ at Public
Bloomberg.com: "The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival, running in New York through this weekend, was established as an outlet for shows considered too marginal for the main stage."
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This made me laugh. Brecht's shows themselves are never really understood, as is his techniques. To take a "meaningless" play of his, update it and adapt it is a terrible idea. Although it worked for the Mother Courage based production of Ruined- that had a story, something to say. And even if you didnt understand the connections to MOCO, it still was an inspiring play raising more then just the question of war, but war in today's times.
Adaptations in general need to say something, or rather need to explain their importance for this time. For example there is a strong backlash from youth culture to the current revival of Hair on broadway. The show is meant for a different time, and is only relatable to those who experienced the actions of the 60s in that time. To someone who is from the 1990s I understand the importance of the events from the 60s but not enough to sit through two hours of essentially nothing onstage only to see them get naked.
I wanna see something that I can relate to, and wrestling, nude singing and adaptations of "meaningless" Brecht plays just dont do it for me.
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