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Author: Sue-Ellen Case
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 1990-02
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780801839696
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA valuable, provoking, important addition to any theatre scholar or practitioner's library, especially since feminist theory is a relative newcomer to the world of theatre.
Author: Darko Suvin
Publisher: Brighton, Sussex : Harvester Press ; Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 304
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Cyrielle Garson
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2021-02-22
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 3110715767
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVerbatim theatre, a type of performance based on actual words spoken by ''real people'', has been at the heart of a remarkable and unexpected renaissance of the genre in Great Britain since the mid-nineties. The central aim of the book is to critically explore and account for the relationship between contemporary British verbatim theatre and realism whilst questioning the much-debated mediation of the real in theses theatre practices.
Author: Janelle G. Reinelt
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780472084081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow contemporary British political theater has evolved and expanded from the legacy of Bertolt Brecht
Author: Sean Carney
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-07-24
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1000143228
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArguing that Brecht’s aesthetic theories are still highly relevant today, and that an appreciation of his theory and theatre is essential to an understanding of modern critical theory, this book examines the influence of Brecht’s aesthetic on the pre-eminent materialist critics of the twentieth century: Louis Althusser, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Frederic Jameson, Theodor W. Adorno and Raymond Williams. Re-reading Brecht through the lens of post-structuralism, Sean Carney asserts that there is a Lacanian Brecht and a Derridean Brecht: the result of which is a new Brecht whose vital importance for the present is located in decentred theories of subjectivity. Brecht and Critical Theory maps the many ways in which Brechtian thinking pervades critical thought today, informing the critical tools and stances that make up the contemporary study of aesthetics.
Author: Peter Thomson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780521424851
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis updated edition properly retains much that was in the original Companion, but also introduces new voices and themes. It brings together the contrasting views of major critics and active practitioners and contains new essays on Brecht's 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 thorough overview of a writer who constantly aimed to provoke. Book jacket.
Author: Bertolt Brecht
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2015-04-23
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1472538579
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe latest volume in Methuen's Collected Brecht includes two plays previously untranslated into English Volume 8 of Brecht's collected plays contains his last completed plays, from the eight years between his return from America to Europe after the war and his death in 1956. Brecht's ANTIGONE (1948) is a bold adaptation of Holderlin's classic German translation of Sophocles' play. A reflection on resistance and dictatorship in the aftermath of Nazism, it was a radical new experiment in epic theatre. THE DAYS OF THE COMMUNE (1949) is a semi-documentary account of the Paris Commune, and Brecht's most serious and ambitious historical play. TURANDOT is Brecht's version of the classic Chinese story is a satire on the intelligentsia of the Weimar Republic, Nazi bureaucracy, and other targets.
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Publisher: Routledge
Published:
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 113463711X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Karen Knorr
Publisher:
Published: 2021-01-26
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9781910401484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKaren Knorr photographed the building site of the disused Parisian Art-Deco Department store, La Samaritaine, in the summers of 2017 and 2018. In this new book, the resulting photographs, transformed with solarisation and infused with playful fantasy and surrealism are accompanied by lines from Brecht?s poem: 'Questions from a Worker Who Reads' (1935).
Author: David Barnett
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-11-20
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1408186020
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDavid Barnett invites readers, students and theatre-makers to discover new ways of apprehending and making use of Brecht in this clear and accessible study of Brecht's theories and practices. The book analyses how Brecht's ideas can come alive in rehearsal and performance, and reveals just how carefully Brecht realized his vision of a politicized, interventionist theatre. What emerges is a nuanced understanding of Brecht's concepts, his work with actors and his approaches to directing. The reader is encouraged to engage with his method which sought to 'make theatre politically', in order to appreciate the innovations he introduced into his stagecraft. Barnett provides many examples of how Brecht's ideas can be staged, and the final chapter takes a closer look at two very different plays: one written by Brecht and one by a playwright with no acknowledged connection to Brecht. Through an interrogation of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui and Patrick Marber's Closer, Barnett asks how a Brechtian approach can enliven and illuminate production.
