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It's also been on You Tube for the last few years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJc4I6pivqg On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 10:28 PM, Ratbag Media via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Peter Weiss wasn't keen on the 'theatre of cruelty' take on Marat/Sade > in Peter Brook's film -- nor on the translation, especially of the > song lyrics as translated and adpated by poet Geoffrey Skelton. > > I think the Artaudian indulgence distracts from the play's theme...but > the musical score,by Richard Peaslee, is great. > > However, his other works are very interesting and increasingly aligned > especially his magnum opus, 'The Aesthetics of Resistance'. > > More accessible however, is his Vietnam travel opiece, 'Notes on the > Cultural Life of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.' > > For those into CPSU history, his 'Trotsky in Exile' was a significant > contribution...that upset the Soviets. > > But his creative mix is various as not only was Weiss a long time > friend of Hermann Hess, greatly influenced by surrealist imagery (in > his writing , film and paintings) but he was also dramaturg under > Irwin Pisactor with a keen heads up for 'documentary theatre'. > > His adaption of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials with 'The > Investigation. Oratorio In 11 Cantos' is emotionally > challenging.Since it is taken from court transcripts, I think his > handling of the material is amazing. > > In the mix is the influence of Bertolt Brecht and, like Harold Pinter, > Samuel Beckett...and his strong parallels to the work of the > documentary theatre of Rolf Hochhuth ('The Representative') and > Heinar Kipphardt ( "In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer"). > > > > dave riley > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/markalause%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
