[Bertholt] Brecht looked very thin, like a herring with very sensitive hands.
The dilemma of Brechtian performance is that, for all of Brecht's emphasis on rationality and the undermining of theatrical illusion, the actor must convincingly portray something that she is not.
I'm Opera Singer. I can sing Brecht, Weil.
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