Bertolt Brecht

The title in fact echoes that of her first novel, since in Setswana it means clouds, weather, or the elements. Eilenberg believes that roots of this story lie in BH 's erotic involvement, during her...

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...

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...

Intended for a working-class audience, the play was inspired in part by Brecht ; CL says she was particularly interested in his enthusiasm for boxing and the relationship between fighters and their audience. Its...

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...

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...

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...

The work deals with theatre and sexual politics since 1968, with an emphasis on alternative theatre groups such as the Women's Theatre Group , Gay Sweatshop , and Monstrous Regiment . The original version considers...

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...