Review: ‘The Mother’ Rises Up Again in the Name of Revolution

The Wooster Group’s production will prompt discussions about the company’s vision for Brecht’s “learning play.”

Review: ‘The Mother’ Rises Up Again In The Name Of Revolution

The New York Times – by Elisabeth Vincentelli

There’s a bit of an echo when the actors in the Wooster Group’s production of “The Mother” speak. At first I assumed that their voices were being digitally filtered. This would have been par for the course for the company, whose longstanding affinity for technological wizardry is well known. And it would have been an ingenious idea for a Bertolt Brecht play, reinforcing the alienation effect the playwright sought by subtly reminding us we were watching a show.

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