Bertolt Brecht

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 rulerQueen Christina ...

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...