Bertolt Brecht

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...