Brecht on Performance: Messingkauf and Modelbooks (Brecht Bertolt)(Paperback)

Brecht on Performance: Messingkauf and Modelbooks (Brecht Bertolt)(Paperback)

Now available in Bloomsbury Revelations series, Brecht on Performance: Messingkauf and Modelbooks presents a selection of Brecht's principal writings about the craft of acting and realising texts for the stage. It crystallises and makes concrete many of the more theoretical aspects of his other

Brecht On Theatre (Brecht Bertolt)(Paperback / softback)

Brecht Collected Plays: Six (Brecht Bertolt)(Paperback)

Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language. This sixth volume of Brecht's Collected Plays contains three plays he wrote while in exile during the early

Brecht: A Practical Handbook (Zoob David)(Paperback)

A bold and exciting new approach to Bertolt Brecht, making his theories and ideas about theatre accessible to a new generation of actors, directors, students and theatre-makers, and showing how they can be put into

Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life (Parker Stephen)(Paperback)

This first English language biography of Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) in two decades paints a strikingly new picture of one of the twentieth century's most controversial cultural icons. First published in 2014 and now available in paperback, it was critically lauded and declared the definitive life

The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Brecht Bertolt)(Paperback)

Selected Poems (Brecht Bertolt)(Paperback)

Although he is best known in the United States for his theater works, Bertolt Brecht is considered one of the greatest of modern German poets. He is supreme among modern poets in any language for his simple, direct, powerful style, which combines poetic sensibility and social consciousness. After a

Bertolt Brecht - Stephen Parker

První anglickojazyčná biografie Bertolta Brechta (1898–1956) vykresluje pohled na jednu z nejkontroverznějších kulturních osobností 20. století. Na základě dopisů, deníků a doposud nepublikovaného materiálu, zahrnujícího Brechtovy lékařské záznamy, nabízí Parker bohatý a

Bertolt Brecht (Mumford Meg)(Paperback)

Bertolt Brecht's methods of collective experimentation, and his unique framing of the theatrical event as a forum for change, placed him among the most important contributors to the theory and practice of theatre. His work continues to have a significant impact on performance practitioners,

The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Brecht Bertolt)(Paperback)

Brecht projects an ancient Chinese story onto a realistic setting in Soviet Georgia. In a theme that echoes the Judgment of Solomon, two women argue over the possession of a child. Thanks to the unruly judge, Azdak (one of Brecht's most vivid creations) natural justice is done and the peasant

Brechtova milenka - Jacques-Pierre Amette

V poválečném východním Berlíně se odehrává románový příběh Bertolta Brechta, který se vrátil z exilu, a mladé krásné herečky Marie Eichové, agentky Stasi. Za tuto knihu, fascinující obraz dvou osobností v atmosféře studené války, byl autor vyznamenán cenou Prix Goncourt

The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui (Brecht Bertolt)(Paperback)

Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all', Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade. Using a wide range of parody and pastiche -

Bertolt Brecht's Refugee Conversations (Brecht Bertolt)(Paperback)

Published in English for the first time, Refugee Conversations is a delightful work that reveals Brecht as a master of comic satire. Written swiftly in the opening years of the Second World War, the dialogues have an urgent contemporary relevance to a Europe once again witnessing populations on the

Problém Brecht II - Jinde - Jaroslav Vostrý, Miroslav Pešák

Jak se vyrovnávají s tvorbou Bertolta Brechta nejen naši nejbližší sousedé, ale i francouzská či britská a americká divadelní kultura? Druhý svazek dvoudílné monografie Problém Brecht s podtitulem Jinde tvoří studie zabývající se konkrétními inscenacemi her Bertolta Brechta

The Life of Galileo (Brecht Bertolt)(Paperback)

This Student Edition of Brecht's classic dramatisation of the conflict between free enquiry and official ideology features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and language as well as questions for further study

Mother Courage and Her Children (Brecht Bertolt)(Paperback)

Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modem stage, Mother Courage and Her Children is Bertolt Brecht s most passionate and profound statement against war. Set in the seventeenth century, the play follows Anna Fierling ( Mother Courage ), an itinerant trader, as she pulls her

A Life of Galileo (Brecht Bertolt)(Paperback)

Arguably Brecht's greatest play, A Life of Galileo charts the seventeenth century scientist's extraordinary fight with the church over his assertion that the earth orbits the sun. The figure of Galileo, whose 'heretical' discoveries about the solar system brought him to the attention of the

Mother Courage and Her Children (Brecht Bertolt)(Paperback)

Mother Courage was first performed in Zurich in 1941 and is usually seen as Brecht's greatest work. Remaining a powerful indictment of war and social injustice, it is an epic drama set in the seventeenth century during the Thirty Years' War. The plot follows the resilient Mother Courage who

Fear and Misery of the Third Reich (Brecht Bertolt)(Paperback)

Brecht's series of twenty-four interconnected playlets describe events which took place in ordinary German households in the 1930s. They dramatise with clinical precision the suspicion and anxiety experienced by ordinary people, particularly Jewish citizens, as the power of Hitler grew. Written in

Mother Courage and Her Children: Mutter Courage Und Ihre Kinder (Brecht Bertolt)(Paperback)

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 unique bilingual edition allows students to compare the original German text with a translation by one of the world's leading playwrights,

Mother Courage and Her Children (Brecht Bertolt)(Paperback)

In this new translation of Brecht's great 1939 anti-war play Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder by the distinguished Scottish poet Tom Leonard, the Thirty Years War becomes the War on Terror and Mother Courage is a working-class woman from the West of Scotland speaking in the broad, bold Glaswegian

Život Galileiho - Brecht Bertolt

Příběh životního dramatu známého vědce a astronoma, který odvolal pod nátlakem církve koperníkovské učení o oběhu planet okolo Slunce. Významné dílo 'epického' dramatu klade otázky o společenské odpovědnosti a etice a osobní odpovědnosti vědce, které se hluboce

War Primer (Brecht Bertolt)(Paperback / softback)

A terrifying series of short poems by one of the world's leading playwrights, set to images of World War II In this singular book written during World War Two, Bertolt Brecht presents a devastating visual and lyrical attack on war under modern capitalism. He takes photographs from newspapers and

Fear and Misery in the Third Reich (Brecht Bertolt)(Paperback)

Also known as The Private Life of the Master Race, this is a sequence of twenty-four realistic sketches showing how ordinary life under the Nazis was subtly permeated by suspicion and anxiety. Written in exile in Denmark and first staged in 1938 it was inspired in part by his recent trip to Moscow