The Scoop, LondonIn a concrete amphitheatre surrounded by the gleaming towers of capitalism, Phil Willmott has had the wit to stage Brecht's most explicitly communist play. And even if history has undermined Brecht's ideological certainty, this 1932 piece still works, in Mark Ravenhill's beautifully pithy translation, as a moving demonstration of its heroine's progress from apathy to activism.Taking his protagonist, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PM on August 9, 2011