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DESCRIPTION:"A Very Brechty X-mas" is an evening of two un-seasonal plays. The first is 
 an anti-war comedy, "Candaules, Commissioner" by Daniel Gerould. Written 
 when the war was in Vietnam, this bawdy tale of an occupation bureaucrat's 
 downfall is disturbingly up-to-date. The second half of the double-feature 
 is "The Exception and the Rule" by Bertolt Brecht, a musical lesson about 
 economic exploitation and which side the law will take.\n\n8:00 p.m. on 
 Thursday, Friday, and Saturday\nDecember 21, 22, and 23\nCustom Made 
 Theatre Company\n965 Mission Street, San Francisco (Near the Powell Street 
 BART Station)\nTickets: $25 General. $15 for Students and 
 Seniors\n800-838-3006 or brownpapertickets.com\n\nReview from the San 
 Francisco Bay Guardian\n"Custom Made Theatre’s holiday twofer dreams 
 feverishly of a white, postcolonial Christmas. Daniel Gerould’s 1965 
 play, Candaules, Commissioner, updates for the Vietnam War era the story of 
 the prideful downfall of a royal dynasty related by Herodotus in The 
 Histories. This rendition turns King Candaules into a glad-handing American 
 diplomat (played with relish by Jay Martin) who forces his beloved driver, 
 Gyges (a fiercely dissembling Perry Aliado), into furtively admiring the 
 exceptional physique of his wife, Nyssia (a coolly commanding Katja 
 Rivera), as she undresses for bed. A broad political cartoon turning the 
 Greek cautionary tale into an allegory of revolution in the face of racist 
 imperial hubris and colonial possession, Gerould’s angry comment on the 
 US role in the third world reeks, needless to say, with contemporary 
 significance. Then Lewis Campbell unrolls another master-servant tale, 
 directing his own fine translation of Bertolt Brecht’s darkly comic, 
 brazenly didactic musical fable The Exception and the Rule, about the case 
 (moral, political, and judicial) of a Western entrepreneur (a delightfully 
 entitled Carson Creecy IV) who slays his honest porter (Benjamin Pither) 
 while racing to lay an oil claim in a distant Eastern desert. The pace is 
 sluggish at times, but the performances remain decent to strong throughout 
 this modestly wrapped Christmas political pageant." 
 (Avila)\nhttp://www.sfbg.com/printable_entry.php?entry_id=2360\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/12/18/18338403.php
SUMMARY:A Very Brechty X-mas: Theater for a turbulent political season
LOCATION:965 Mission Street, San Francisco (near the Powell Street BART Station)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/12/18/18338403.php
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