The Caucasian Chalk Circle

HD and I went to see a very ambitious play by Brecht, put on by the MSU theater department. The audience sat onstage around the actors - a pleasant departure from the usual.

The actors were playing their hearts out. Some were young, and lacked the ugly life experiences to be truly convincing of living in a war-torn country, fearing for their lives. It's not a bad problem to have...