You might choose to adopt Brechtian techniques because you’ve been told that you must exploit the ideas of a major practitioner in your work. Or it may be that the objectivity of the style suits ...

Bertolt Brecht was a theatre practitioner. He made and shaped theatre in a way that had a huge impact upon its development. Many of his ideas were so revolutionary that they changed the theatrical ...

Bertolt Brecht is among the most important playwrights of the twentieth century – it was he who coined the term "epic theater." His work is deemed sophisticated and sometimes difficult and ...

This past weekend, I had the pleasure of seeing Theatre Breaking Through Barriers' Off-Broadway production of Brecht on Brecht, directed by Nicholas Viselli. The company's mission statement is as ...

Mother (adapted by Bert Brecht; Theatre Union, producer). The Red Russians may run their trains off the rails and foolishly crack up their super-airships, but their Revolutionary Theatre ...

Throughout this turbulence, and in spite of it, Brecht managed to remain extraordinarily productive, revolutionizing the theater of the twentieth century and developing a new approach to language and ...

Brecht did this technique in order so audience would realize that they were only watching a play now. It reminds the viewers that the real fight happens outside the confines of the theater.

My work focuses on the employment of the Brechtian didactic play - Lehrstück - in contemporary political performance and, more broadly, on theatre that addresses the material and ideological ...

That David Wheeler and his Theatre Company of Boston have decided to do Brecht their own way is, in itself, refreshing. Describing his brilliant production of Galileo in San Francisco, Herbert ...