Who Do You Think You Are? Wrong! ‘A Man’s a Man,’ a Brecht Rarity, is Revived
Charles IsherwoodJanuary 30, 2014: Galy Gay, the hapless protagonist of Bertolt Brecht’s 1925 play A Man’s a Man, falls victim to several mind games during the course of his brainwashing at the hands of British soldiers stationed in India. But perhaps the most unhappily symbolic trick played upon him, in the Classic Stage Company’s new production of this rarely seen play, is his coerced belief that a pile of barrels draped with a sari is actually an elephant, one that he is duped into trying to sell, thus falling into hot water with the authorities. For despite its often broadly comic tone, this hard-working but uninvolving production moves with the lumbering tread of a pachyderm in no hurry to get to the watering hole.
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