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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
3 Penny is good, but check out The Mother,
By Sparky (Berkeley, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Threepenny Opera, Baal, and the Mother (Three Penny Opera, Baal & the Mother) (Paperback)
I have seen several performances of Brecht's famous 3 Penny Opera and have enjoyed them all, but the play I would encourage people to read from this collection is The Mother. It is one of Brecht's "learning plays" and is based on a novel by Maxim Gorky.The Mother What a wonderful play! This play is set in Russia and is about the transformation of Pelagea Vlassova, an illiterate, somewhat narrow and worn, older woman. She starts out suspicious of her son's new friends -- a group of young Bolsheviks who make leaflets in her home! They endanger, she feels, her already precarious and poverty stricken existence. But as she questions and observes these youth she is drawn into the revolution and comes alive, changing into a badass revolutionary herself: creative, daring and courageous. Music and song accompany her transformation -- and the fourth wall is broken many times as the actors take turns talking frankly to the audience about the story as it unfolds. |
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The Threepenny Opera, Baal, and the Mother (Three Penny Opera, Baal & the Mother) by Bertolt Brecht (Paperback - October 15, 1993)
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