Bertolt Brecht

In 1932 DR missed out on a chance to work with Bertolt Brecht . Shortly after the release of The Dubarry, of which her translation received excellent notices, she received a request from Brecht...

After writing for television, AD was drawn to live theatre because of the medium's relative freedom from censorship and its enduring qualities: It is Literature. When you create a character in the theatre you are...

In a historical novel or fictional biography entitled Loving Brecht, EF presented Frieda Bloom, an invented cabaret singer, relating her life with Bertolt Brecht , in Germany (Berlin), Moscow, and the USA...

Scum takes place in a laundry at the time of the Paris commune (between September 1870 and January 1871). Making use of the Brechtian techniques of song and direct address, the play establishes connections between...

The metatheatrical first act takes place during rehearsals for William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet (in which Kemble made her triumphant stage debut on 5 October 1829); in it Kemble's aunt Sarah Siddons instructs her niece on playing...

This volume's title and epigraph are taken from The Great Gatsby. Like AR 's other works, Dark Fields of the Republic reflects a diverse group of artistic and social influences, which include the Bible...

According to Linden Peach , the writings of Bertolt Brecht and Mikhail Bakhtin influenced AC 's notions of theatre and the carnivalesque, which are central features of Nights at the Circus. However, Peach went...

Although certainly located in the Brechtian tradition of epic theatre, with its political resonances and self-referentiality, it is likewise identifiable as theatre of the absurd (as AS points out), with the apparent influences of...

Churchill employs Brecht ian alienation techniques in her songs, which she specifies are not part of the action and should if possible be sung by actors in modern dress. These provide ironic commentary on...

Churchill encourages cross-gender and cross-racial casting. Joshua, a black servant who appears to have been thoroughly brainwashed by colonialist ideology, is to be played by a white actor (a decision motivated by there being no...

Structured along the lines of Brecht ian epic theatre, but filmic in many of its methods, PG 's drama presents a sequence of episodes from the life of the seventeenth-century Swedish ruler Queen Christina ....

Later, after the Reichstag fire in the spring of 1933, distinguished exiles from Nazi Germany, Jews and left-wingers who got out early, began to choose Sanary as their temporary home: Bertolt Brecht , Thomas Mann

A propos the Sheffield production of 2015, Alan Bennett commented on the difficulty of achieving realism with such extreme violence: how can a character mutilated on stage be shown as having attention for anything at...

After the Reichstag fire of 27 February 1933, Günther Stern fled to Paris (fearing the Gestapo would catch up with him as a contact of Bertolt Brecht ). HA remained in Berlin, and associated herself...

Since the early 1990s, MW has turned her attention to music. Her libretti and radio plays include works based on poems by John Cornford , John Milton , and Ariosto : Spain, first performed...