Drama ATAR: Bertolt Brecht
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Brecht Books in the Library
Brecht on Theatre by ISBN: 9780413388001Publication Date: 2003-09-01This selection of Bertolt Brecht's critical writings charts the development of his thinking on theatre and aesthetics over four decades, demonstrating how his theories changed and evolved.
The Cambridge Companion to Brecht by
This updated Companion offers students crucial guidance on virtually every aspect of the work of this complex and controversial writer. It brings together the contrasting views of major critics and active practitioners, and this edition introduces more voices and themes. The opening essays place Brecht's creative work in its historical and biographical context and are followed by chapters on single texts, from The Threepenny Opera to The Caucasian Chalk Circle, on some early plays and on the Lehrstücke. Other essays analyse Brecht's directing, his poetry, his interest in music and his work with actors. This revised edition also contains additional essays on his early experience of cabaret, his significance in the development of film theory and his unique approach to dramaturgy. A detailed calendar of Brecht's life and work and a selective bibliography of English criticism complete this provocative overview of a writer who constantly aimed to provoke.
ISBN: 9780521673846Publication Date: 2006-12-21
Database resources
ANZ EBSCO Reference Centre Database and Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Bertolt Brecht
Epic Theatre
SCSA Drama Glossary
Bertolt Brecht : German theatre writer, director and scenographer (1898:1956) who built on the work of Erwin Piscator to develop theatre approaches (called Lehrstücke) that produced different emotional and thematic effects on his audiences. This work, including the creation of alienation effects in a performance, later became known under the title ‘Epic Theatre’. Brecht’s theatre sought to achieve social and political transformation especially in response to forces like the rise of Nazi Germany.
See Processes developed by Brecht.
Brecht and Epic Theatre
The Drama Teacher : Epic Theatre Conventions
- The Drama Teacher : Epic Theatre Conventions Cash, J. (2015). Epic Theatre Conventions. Retrieved from http://www.thedramateacher.com/epic-theatre-conventions/
The Chicago School of Media Theory : Epic Theatre
- The Chicago School of Media Theory : Epic Theatre The Chicago School of Media Theory. (2010). Epic Theatre. Retrieved from https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/mediatheory/keywords/epic-theater/
BBC Bitesize - GCSE Drama : Epic Theatre and Brecht
- Epic Theatre and Brecht BBC Bitesize. (2016). Epic Theatre and Brecht. Retrieved from http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/guides/zwmvd2p/revision/2
Brecht's Epic Theatre and Peking Opera
- Brecht's Epic Theatre and Peking Opera Yao-Kun, L. (2011). BRECHT'S EPIC THEATRE AND PEKING OPERA. AUMLA: Journal Of The Australasian University Of Modern Language Association, (116), 65-81.
Brecht Books in the Library
The Threepenny Opera by
Based on John Gay's eighteenth century Beggar's Opera, The Threepenny Opera, first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, is a vicious satire on the bourgeois capitalist society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho. With Kurt Weill's unforgettable music - one of the earliest and most successful attempts to introduce jazz to the theatre - it became a popular hit throughout the western world. Published in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, this edition features extensive notes and commentary including an introduction to the play, Brecht's own notes on the play, a full appendix of textual variants, a note by composer Kurt Weill, a transcript of a discussion about the play between Brecht and a theatre director, plus editorial notes on the genesis of the play.
ISBN: 9780413390301Publication Date: 2003-07-01
Mother Courage and Her Children by
This Student Edition of Brecht's anti-war masterpiece features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and language as well as questions for further study and notes on words and phrases in the text. It is the perfect edition for students of theatre and literature. In this chronicle of the Thirty Years War of the seventeenth century, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon. As the action of the play progresses between the years 1624 and 1646 she loses her children to the war but remains indomitable, refusing to part with her livelihood - the wagon. The play is one of the most celebrated examples of Epic Theatre and of Brecht's use of alienation effect to focus attention on the issues of the play above the individual characters. It remains regarded as one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century and one of the great anti-war plays of all time. The Berlin production of 1949, with Helene Weigel as Mother Courage, marked the foundation of the Berliner Ensemble. This volume contains expert notes on the author's life and work, historical and political background to the play, photographs from stage productions and a glossary of difficult words and phrases. The play is translated by Brecht scholar John Willett who did more than anyone else to make Brecht's work available in the English language.
ISBN: 9780413492708Publication Date: 2012-03-15
The Good Person of Szechwan by
'Brecht's dark, dazzling world-view'makes an absolutely devastating impact. The play is fuelled by the brilliant perception that everyone requires such a dual or split personality to survive.' Evening Standard. Three gods come to earth hoping to discover one really good person. No one can be found until they meet Shen Te, a prostitute with a heart of gold. Rewarded by the gods, she gives up her profession and buys a tabacco shop but finds it is impossible to survive as a good person in a corrupt world without the support of her ruthless alter ego Shui Ta. Brecht's parable of good and evil was first performed in 1943 and remains one of his most popular and frequently produced plays worldwide. This Student Edition features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and language as well as questions for further study and notes on words and phrases in the text. It is the perfect edition for students of theatre and literature.
ISBN: 9781408100073Publication Date: 2012-03-15
