Bertolt Brecht

In Cairo the African-American journalist David Du Bois helped MA to get a job as assistant editor on a new English-language weekly called the Arab Observer (the only non-male, non-Arab, non-Muslim on its staff). In...

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...

Dark times is a phrase from Brecht . It is almost synonymous here with the twentieth century, though HA has a piece on Lessing , who lived two centuries earlier. She uses men to signify...

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

AC 's contributions include rendering Fragment 286 by the Greek poet Ibykos in the manner successively of various more modern voices: John Donne , Samuel Beckett , Franz Kafka , an FBI report on Bertolt Brecht

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...

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...

Home in this collection opens, Where is that I wonder? It then evokes comfortable, elegant settings of both childhood and adult life, and also a place where the poet awakes from dreaming of her dead...

The range of allusion in these poems is extraordinarily wide although the tone is never pretentious. Gluttony is described as a ballad after the manner of Bert Brecht . For the title piece—which speaks...

MF also acted while at Oxford, taking the role of the peasant girl Grusha in a production of Brecht 's The Caucasian Chalk Circle that was directed and starred in by Dennis Potter . During...

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 ....

During this period she added film to stage performance in it droppeth as the gentle rain, a surrealist work by Albie Thoms (who was later an avant-garde film-maker of some fame). Designed to be...