Orwell & Nineteen Eighty-Four

[Paul Mackin]

On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 23:27, David Morris wrote:
> 
> --- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Orwell would have known about Brecht's theater essays.
> 
> And everyone knows about his political tracts, God help us.
> 
> But I Love beyond measure his "The Good Woman of Szechuan," as seen by me at
> the Cambridge Rep (Cambridge, MA) back ca. '86.  Classic in all regards.

I saw a number of Brecht plays during the sixties. They were quite
popular. Even starting in the fifties with Three Penny Opera including
the saved-from-the-gallows happy ending. Hope I'm remembering right.
The Chinese setting of several of the plays is interesting because I
believe Brecht saw similarities to his alienation effect in Chinese
theater. I haven't done anything yet to investigate whether it makes any
sense to see the 1984 appendix as something akin to the famous a-effect.
Or v-effect in German.

P.