tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17495502.post552925597892388046..comments2023-06-23T01:21:23.967-07:00Comments on Jezza's Blog: Edward Bond's BingoJeremy Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07657204289331648516noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17495502.post-12967558285167767112012-04-15T13:50:08.786-07:002012-04-15T13:50:08.786-07:00Bond doesn't think is Brecht. Bond would be d...Bond doesn't think is Brecht. Bond would be disgusted by such a thought. Bond despisses Brecht. Brecht was a liar - that's is why he could justified and sided with Stalin- , Bond is not.<br />With Bond think of the ethical not of the ideological .C Villahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11825408546864858364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17495502.post-4857311113885976122012-02-25T13:15:45.699-08:002012-02-25T13:15:45.699-08:00I read Michael Billington's review in the guar...I read Michael Billington's review in the guardian today, some of it along the lines you sketched, and some more. He concluded, that this performance has sealed the play as a modern classic. <br />That is perhaps the clue why despite all the intellectual energy that went into the play it did not really knock us of our seats. Bond's take on horrid capitalism and the failure of the intellectual middle classes is blunt, Brechtian in that sense, yes, but just not anything new. What it lacked, and most Brecht plays seem to have, if I remember correctly, is the sense that the poor and disposed can do something about it - and we are witnessing quite a bit of it currently. Unless I missed those lines, there was nothing in the play that led from what it depicted to what it should be or could be - not a happy end, but a possible path to take.<br />I also think that capitalism is far more complicated that the fairly black and white treatment seems to suggest.<br />And I reserve the right to be entertained - in the Brechtian sense: I am all for allienation in the theater, to be taken out of the story and reflect on the reality of my own life, toggling between these modes as the play unfolds. This play didn't do it for me.KDRossadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00454737781125647916noreply@blogger.com