Big bruder is watching.(Theater Review) (theater review)
American Theatre, May, 2003 by Langworthy, Douglas
GERMANY HAS TRADITIONALLY been fertile ground for growing premium acting companies--extended families of high-voltage actors clustered around a visionary director. There was Bertolt Brecht's seminal Berliner Ensemble. In Munich in the late 1960s, Rainer Werner Fassbinder directed a motley group of beauties and misfits (among them Hanna Schygulla).
In the '70s, it was Peter Stein's Schaubuhne in Berlin, where the flame of company burned brightest, illuminated by the talent of Bruno Ganz, Edith Clever and Jutta Lampe. In the '90s, a group of vital young actors from Hamburg's Thalia ...
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