"In the spring of 2012 I brought together a group of actors, activists and artists to perform Brecht’s play 'The Days of the Commune' in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street. Thinking about OWS as a radical theater of the people, inspired me to conceptualize this project as a 'work in progress' in a sense that all social movements are a work in progress and I wanted this work to be visible. Rather than stage the play in a theater, we performed it scene by scene in public spaces around New York City starting in Zuccotti Park. These public rehearsals ran from March through May, the months of the Paris Commune's brief existence in the spring of 1871. ... - Zoe Beloff"
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W - The Days of the Commune
The Days of the Commune
2009 December: Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht
2011 August: W - Communards’ Wall 1871
2012 March: The Threepenny Opera - Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill
2012 July: Supply and Demand: Songs by Brecht / Weill & Eisler - Dagmar Krause
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