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DESCRIPTION:The Exception and the Rule - Play be Bertolt Brecht \nStanford Summer 
 Theatre (SST) presents Bertolt Brecht’s Exception and the Rule, directed 
 by Rush Rehm\n In the late 1920s, the great German playwright Bertolt 
 Brecht (1898-1956) began working on “learning plays” (Lehrstücke), 
 short theater pieces written specifically for workers and students. The 
 Exception and the Rule (1931-2) is such a play, although it was not staged 
 in Germany during Brecht’s lifetime.\n The Exception and the Rule has 
 particular relevance to the labor movement. Instead of thinking about 
 individual psychology, or pointing out the obvious inequalities in wealth 
 distribution, Brecht’s play goes for the jugular: What kind of ethics 
 will a capitalist system produce? Which ethical dilemmas will it value, and 
 which will it fail to recognize? What behavior will emerge from a system in 
 which maximizing corporate profits, personal income, and ownership of 
 private property represent the greatest values?\n Brecht wrote The 
 Exception and the Rule as a way of encouraging workers to unionize and 
 recognize the forces they were up against. A funny, highly physical, and 
 thought-provoking parable about wealth and exploitation, The Exception and 
 the Rule packs a wallop, and all in 60 minutes! \n\nPlays by Bertolt Brecht 
 are always a pleasure to savor and remember.\n\nStanford Summer Theatre 
 (SST) \n\nSee 
 also:\nhttp://www.gradesaver.com/author/bertolt-brecht/\nhttps://eee.uci.edu/programs/humcore/Student/archives/HUACBrecht.htm 
 (At end is Brecht's Unread Statement to the HUAC witch hunters which is a 
 ringing indictment of Nazi 
 USA.)\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkiqGxD4CZ8 (Live Brecht testimony 
 before HUAC which was put on a phonograph record.  This was in 1947, when 
 Democrat Truman was 
 president.)\nhttp://www.groveatlantic.com/?author=Bertolt+Brecht#page=author99-all\nhttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0106517/bio 
 (biography)\nhttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0106517/ (Movies, TV movies, plays, 
 stories)\nhttp://www.theatredatabase.com/20th_century/bertolt_brecht_001.html\nhttp://www.allmusic.com/album/hanns-eisler-bertolt-brecht-collaboration-mw0001841732 
 (collaboration with musician Hanns 
 Eisler)\nhttp://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/5707/Bertolt-Brecht\nhttp://www.stanford.edu/group/summertheater/cgi-bin/sst/\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2013/2013schedule.htm\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/06/19/18738680.php
SUMMARY:CANCELED: Laborfest: Brecht Drama: The Exception and the Rule
LOCATION:Plumbers' Hall  - 1621 Market St. at Franklin St., San Francisco.  Van Ness 
 Metro Station, Civic Center BART.\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/06/19/18738680.php
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