Brecht in Practice: Theatre, Theory and Performance, David Barnett

Название: Anti-War Theatre After Brecht
ISBN: 1137538872 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137538871
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Описание: Examiningthe ways in which contemporary Western theatre protests against the ‘War onTerror’, this book analyses six twenty-first century plays that respond to thepost-9/11 military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine. The plays arewritten by some of the most significant writers of this century and the lastincluding Elfriede Jelinek, Caryl Churchill, H?l?ne Cixous andTony Kushner.Anti-war Theatre After Brecht grapples with theproblem of how to make theatre that protests the policies of democraticallyelected Western governments in a post-Marxist era. It shows how the Internethas become a key tool for disseminating anti-war play texts and how onlinesocial media forums are changing traditional dramatic aesthetics and broadeningopportunities for spectator access, engagement and interaction with a work andthe political alternatives it puts forward.

Автор: Lyon James K.
Название: Bertolt Brecht in America
ISBN: 0691613737 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691613734
Издательство: Wiley
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This colorful account of Bertolt Brecht's move from Germany to America during the Hitler era explores his activities as a Hollywood writer, a playwright determined to conquer Broadway, a political commentator and activist, a social observer, and an exile in an alien land.

Originally published in 1980.

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Автор: Bradley, David
Название: From text to performance in the elizabethan theatre
ISBN: 0521109442 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521109444
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: David Bradley sets out to discover how Elizabethan theatre companies prepared plays for performance: how playwrights understood the composition of the actor-companies they wrote for, how actors followed their directions for entrances and exits and what happened when plays were adapted for changes on personnel or for other companies.