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Performing Brecht : forty years of British performances /

By: Eddershaw, Margaret.
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1996, (2003)Description: x, 188 p. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 041508010X (alk. paper); 9780415080101:; 9780415080101 (alk. paper); 0415080118 (alk. paper); 9780415080118 (alk. paper).Subject(s): Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956 -- Stage history -- Great Britain | Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956 -- Dramatic production | Theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Theater -- Great Britain -- Production and direction | German drama -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 792.950941
Contents:
1. Brecht and the Performer: Measuring the Distance. Practitioners who influenced the young Brecht. The performer's distance in epic theatre. The epic theatre audience. Brecht and Stanislavski. The actor and the role. The actor and the audience. Decreasing the distance between Brecht and Stanislavski. Choosing his actors. Acting at the Berliner Ensemble -- 2. Performing Early British Brecht: Following the Berliner. Preparing for Brecht. Brecht slips into Britain. Theatre Workshop and Mother Courage. English Stage Company and The Threepenny Opera. The Royal Court and The Good Woman of Setzuan. Brecht and British playwrights. William Gaskill and British Brecht of the 1960s. The Berliner Ensemble returns -- 3. Performing Brecht Post-1968: The Radical Responses. The 'booming' 1960s. The development of alternative theatre. Brecht by the radical touring companies. Brecht at the radical repertory theatres -- 4. Performing 'Classical' Brecht: Making the Strange Familiar. Brecht at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Brecht at the National Theatre. The National Theatre on Tour -- 5. Performing Brecht in the 1990s: Three Approaches to Post-Wall Brecht. The legacy of the late 1980s. The Good Person of Sichuan at the National Theatre, 1989. Mother Courage at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, 1990. The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at the National Theatre, 1991 -- 6. Performing Brecht in the Twenty-First Century: Dinosaurs Came Later. Brecht and the postmodern. A new view of The Life of Galileo? Transforming the audience. Brecht and Bond. The way forward for British Brecht?
Summary: Performing Brecht is an unprecedented history of the productions of Brecht's plays in Britain over 40 years. Eddershaw surveys all aspects of Brecht in performance, from his methodologies to his place in postmodernist theatre and beyond.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-180) and index.

1. Brecht and the Performer: Measuring the Distance. Practitioners who influenced the young Brecht. The performer's distance in epic theatre. The epic theatre audience. Brecht and Stanislavski. The actor and the role. The actor and the audience. Decreasing the distance between Brecht and Stanislavski. Choosing his actors. Acting at the Berliner Ensemble -- 2. Performing Early British Brecht: Following the Berliner. Preparing for Brecht. Brecht slips into Britain. Theatre Workshop and Mother Courage. English Stage Company and The Threepenny Opera. The Royal Court and The Good Woman of Setzuan. Brecht and British playwrights. William Gaskill and British Brecht of the 1960s. The Berliner Ensemble returns -- 3. Performing Brecht Post-1968: The Radical Responses. The 'booming' 1960s. The development of alternative theatre. Brecht by the radical touring companies. Brecht at the radical repertory theatres -- 4. Performing 'Classical' Brecht: Making the Strange Familiar. Brecht at the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Brecht at the National Theatre. The National Theatre on Tour -- 5. Performing Brecht in the 1990s: Three Approaches to Post-Wall Brecht. The legacy of the late 1980s. The Good Person of Sichuan at the National Theatre, 1989. Mother Courage at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, 1990. The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at the National Theatre, 1991 -- 6. Performing Brecht in the Twenty-First Century: Dinosaurs Came Later. Brecht and the postmodern. A new view of The Life of Galileo? Transforming the audience. Brecht and Bond. The way forward for British Brecht?

Performing Brecht is an unprecedented history of the productions of Brecht's plays in Britain over 40 years. Eddershaw surveys all aspects of Brecht in performance, from his methodologies to his place in postmodernist theatre and beyond.

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