Mayfield Repertory theater launches new series

Aug. 24-30, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant" (1972). A Cleveland premiere dealing with the shifting power relationships among three lesbians: a successful "liberated" fashion designer, her contented slave girl and a sultry model who makes the master the slave; "Fox and His Friends" (1975). Fossbinder himself stars in a film exploring the destructive effect of the fashionable homosexual society on a work. ing class homosexual.