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Article: For Brecht, an Ironic EncoreArticle: Playing Brecht The theater critic, playwright, and stage actor Eric Bentley is the foremost English-speaking authority on Bertolt Brecht. He ...
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SAN FRANCISCO Bertolt Brecht, that famous game changer of the 20th-century theater, often seems to be more honored in theory than in practice, at least in America.
Filmmaker John Walter says he wishes that when he became interested in writer-director Bertolt Brecht, there had been a documentary like Walter's Theater of War. "It's a nonacademic introduction ...
Brecht's theatre dramatized not universal truths but what is changeable in human society. His Own Devices. From his early 30s on, Brecht was a doctrinaire Marxist, ...
Before I begin my review of Cal Poly Humboldt’s production of “The Life of Galileo,” presented by the Department of Dance, Music & Theatre in the Gist Hall Theatre that I saw on its opening ...
Brecht’s notion of the epic theatre was founded on the concept of the Verfremdungseffekt, usually translated as alienation or distancing effect.
Previously, she has read poems by her grandfather. This year, she’ll read work by her father, poet Stefan Brecht. Brecht Fest IV is at 8:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 6, and Tuesday, Feb. 7, at AllWays ...
A few years ago, Yagi Hiroshi, a theater scholar from Osaka, described Brecht as the German writer most often heard about in Japan. In exile, Brecht himself became involved with Japanese literature.