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Anti-War Theatre After Brecht

2016-06-17 Performing Arts
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Release : 2016-06-17
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Book Synopsis Anti-War Theatre After Brecht by : Lara Stevens

Download or read book Anti-War Theatre After Brecht written by Lara Stevens. This book was released on 2016-06-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the ways in which contemporary Western theatre protests against the ‘War on Terror’, this book analyses six twenty-first century plays that respond to the post-9/11 military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine. The plays are written by some of the most significant writers of this century and the last including Elfriede Jelinek, Caryl Churchill, Hélène Cixous and Tony Kushner. Anti-war Theatre After Brecht grapples with the problem of how to make theatre that protests the policies of democratically elected Western governments in a post-Marxist era. It shows how the Internet has become a key tool for disseminating anti-war play texts and how online social media forums are changing traditional dramatic aesthetics and broadening opportunities for spectator access, engagement and interaction with a work and the political alternatives it puts forward.

Lara Stevens: Anti-War Theatre After Brecht : Dialectical Aesthetics in the Twenty-First Century

2018
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Book Synopsis Lara Stevens: Anti-War Theatre After Brecht : Dialectical Aesthetics in the Twenty-First Century by : Anja Hartl

Download or read book Lara Stevens: Anti-War Theatre After Brecht : Dialectical Aesthetics in the Twenty-First Century written by Anja Hartl. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mother Courage and Her Children

2016-03-24 Drama
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Release : 2016-03-24
Genre : Drama
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Book Synopsis Mother Courage and Her Children by : Bertolt Brecht

Download or read book Mother Courage and Her Children written by Bertolt Brecht. This book was released on 2016-03-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mother Courage and Her Children is widely regarded as Brecht's best work, a theatrical landmark and one of the most powerful anti-war plays in history. This translation by Michael Hofmann was published to coincide with the UK tour by English Touring Theatre in 2006. In this chronicle of the Thirty Years War of the seventeenth century, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon. As the action of the play progresses between the years 1624 and 1646 she loses her children to the war but remains indomitable, refusing to part with her livelihood - the wagon. The play is one of the most celebrated examples of Epic Theatre and of Brecht's use of alienation effect to focus attention on the issues of the play above the individual characters. It remains regarded as one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century and one of the great anti-war plays of all time. The Berlin production of 1949, with Helene Weigel as Mother Courage, marked the foundation of the Berliner Ensemble. Translated by the celebrated, German-born translator Michael Hofmann who has won multiple awards for his translation of works from German into English, the stage production was acclaimed for his 'gutsy,colloquial translation' (The Stage).

Mother Courage and Her Children

1966 Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648
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Release : 1966
Genre : Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648
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Download or read book Mother Courage and Her Children written by Bertolt Brecht. This book was released on 1966. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mother Courage and Her Children

2010-04 Drama
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Release : 2010-04
Genre : Drama
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Book Synopsis Mother Courage and Her Children by : Bertolt Brecht

Download or read book Mother Courage and Her Children written by Bertolt Brecht. This book was released on 2010-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full Length, Drama w/music / 18m, 5f, extras /Int./5 Exts. This German play was written in 1939 and was first produced in Zurich in 1941. In America, it was published in English right away (1941, by New Directions) but did not reach Broadway till 1963 - in a memorable production directed by Jerome Robbins and starring Anne Bancroft. It had, of course, by that time been produced to much acclaim all over the world. When Bertolt Brecht directed the play in Munich (1950), Eric Bentley, Assistant Director, at his bidding started to translate the play into English. He was eventually to make several different English versions of it. The most interesting of these is published here. It was a collaboration with the eminent French composer Darius Milhaud. Together they made this remarkable contribution to musical theatre.

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