THEATER
THURSDAY - SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7 - 10, 2019
7:30 THURSDAY - SATURDAY
2:30 PM SUNDAY

Ernst Toller: Hoppla, We're Alive!
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan

Free
http://lamama.org/hoppla/

After helping invent Epic Theater along with Berthold Brecht in Weimar Germany — an acheivement of especial importance to the personal esthetic of Your Compiler (which is why friends shouldn't be surprised at my incredulity when they ask me if I want to see something like The Rose Tatoo) — director Erwin Piscator fled Germany (for obvious reasons) for Soviet Russia. Then (for obvious reasons), Piscator fled Russia, ending up in New York City, where he was asked to form a theater workshop (the famous Dramatic Workshop) at the New School. In the early '50s, Piscator fled the United States (for obvious reasons) for West Germany, where he died. On the occasion of the New School's centennial, its liberal arts school has mounted this revival/reinterpretation of what was perhaps Piscator's signal Weimar Epic Theater achievement (written by Ernst Toller) — and a massive hit on the scale of Brecht/Weill's Threepenny Opera. Epic Theater fans know what to do.

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