SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

THEATRE

Socialist Action No. 137, 18 April 1986 · p. 11 of the scan · 173 words

The scan: 137-apr-18-1986-SA-UK.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
How this article was cut and titled: headline found by type size in the OCR geometry (split_tabloid.py); 5-5 of 7; machine-segmented newspaper page; uncorrected Vision OCR.

page 11 of the scan

excellent music, gave a hint of what might have been. Her direct address to the aucience, and ner noalse well-timed delivery, made sense of the play's vulgar humour for a while.

Upstaging everyone was the set. A dizzying series of sumptuous visually distracting props were rolled on and rolled off, or flown in and flown out.

was fetishistic parade not dissimilar to the end of The Generation Game, with its conveyor belt of consumer goods: an apparently real vintage vehicle (full-size), a huge carousel-type horse, four-poster bed particularly speclaculai entrance even received applause.

A combination of the undecide production opulent direction restricted what remained of the original meaning to the words Brecht's message about the influence of a tull stomach upon virtue ('It's food that morals flow from...') and the luxury of moral judgewas mostly undermined. The song with which the play ended, remonstrating with the ausorry e tof manson earth, dience consider was no more than another big Ine necessar concluding razzamatazz.

bormac POOR CHAP!

ALWAY LEAVES HIM EMOTIONALLY DRAINED!!

← The thirty-thousandBlack NALGO →

Something wrong on this page?