I have been reading about Ingmar Bergman and Brecht, as I had been planning to do for quite some time. I've also been reading about Howard Brenton, as I discovered some slightly dusty and badly photocopied plays of his in the library. I was quite intrigued by the title Hitler Dances and I tried to decipher the pages but didn't have the essential
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I know how you feel. All that we don't know constantly amazes me, and it's that rush that keeps me in school and makes me bitterly wish I'd done History.
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even a strophe of the 'alabama song' is quoted there and i´m sure you know that there is a recording of bowie singing this one :)
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Funnily enough Howard Brenton has a new play on at the National in London at the moment - Paul it's called, I think. Caused a bit of a stir there. I'm hoping to get a chance to see it when I go home for Christmas.
And Brecht....well Brecht's a huge favourite from way back in my youth. Most everything he's written's good but I reccomend Baal, threepenny Opera, caucasian chalk circle, Mother courage and Gallileo. Even more I would recomend seeing a good production of one of his plays but that's fairly hard in Europe, I can't imagine it's much easier there.
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I found Brenton very good though...
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