At one point in "Theatre of War," a revealing documentary about the 2006 New York staging of Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage and Her Children," Meryl Streep informs us that we don't really want to know too much about the process of preparation for a role. To outsiders, she says, it can just look like "bad acting." It's like showing off the plumbing in a new house; you might be proud of it, and you're certainly glad it works, but it's not something you'd want to advertise. Sorry, Meryl, but in this movie watching "the process" seems pretty interesting, especially when playwright Tony Kushner, actor Kevin Kline and Brecht's daughter pop in for a comment or two. Acting students won't want to miss this one. It plays tonight and Thursday at SIFF Cinema.
John Hartl,
Special to The Seattle Times
Today's schedule
Egyptian
3:30 p.m. — "Games of Love & Chance"
6 p.m. — "The Secret of the Grain"
9:30 p.m. — "Lady Jane"
Harvard Exit
4:30 p.m. — "Combalimon"
6:45 p.m. — "Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go"
9:15 p.m. — "The End"
Moore Theatre
7 p.m. — "In the Land of the Head Hunters"
Pacific Place Cinema
4:30 p.m. — "XXY"
7 p.m. — "The Island of Lost Souls"
9:15 p.m. — "Postcards From Leningrad"
SIFF Cinema
4:30 p.m. — "Under the Bombs"
7 p.m. — "Theatre of War"
9:30 p.m. — "Stranded: I've Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains"
Uptown
4:30 p.m. — "Princess of the Sun"
7 p.m. — "Days and Clouds"
9:30 p.m. — "Still Orangutans"
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