The San Francisco Mime Troupe's
The Mother
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8917839 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mel Gordon (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 94-101 |
| Publication date | 1975-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Drama Review TDR (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-5962 • E-ISSN: 2326-2060 |
| Publisher | The MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1144950 |
| OpenAlex | W2796510285 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
To me The Mother is one of Brecht's worst plays, sentimental and party-dogmatic. Later on in his career, I tell them [Denny Stevens and Steve Friedman of the Mime Troupe], he [Brecht] learned how to do these things much better, how to sink dialectic into the human situation.... And when I insist on the play's being a lesser work, I get a very cold smile from Steve: “We disagree entirely.” Review by Michael Feingold in the Village Voice (2 December 1974) Written in 1930-1931 after a Party directive to bring more women into the various German Communist organizations and first produced in January, 1932, Brecht's adaptation of the well-known Maxim Gorky novel, The Mother, was the subject of an intense esthetic and political debate among theatre critics and left-based theatre workers
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Communism · Dialectic · Directive · German · Maxim · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Subject (documents · Theology · Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research · History · Law · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Philosophy · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2007 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |