Articles matching 'berliner ensemble'
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washingtonpost.com | October 27, 2009
Backstage: What's going around in Charles Mee's 'Full Circle' at Woolly Mammoth
The large cast of "Full Circle" danced and sang "Everlasting Love" atop a long, high table in the lobby of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company during a rehearsal on Friday. The table then...
In this article: Edgar Allan Poe, Woolly mammoth, and Heiner Muller
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GlobalPost | September 14, 2009
Merkel/Steinmeier is no Obama/McCain
Franz Muentefering (left), leader of Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD), watches a televised debate between Chancellor Angela Merkel of the CDU and her challenger, German Foreign...
In this article: Angela Merkel, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany, Social Democratic Party, Berlin, Berliner Ensemble, and CDU
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Guardian Unlimited | September 10, 2009
Double trouble? When playwrights direct
Please activate cookies in order to turn autoplay off As a writer, I'm used to handing over my plays to directors and seeing what they make of them. I don't envy those who take on both...
In this article: JavaScript, Wim Wenders, and Kings of the Road
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Guardian Unlimited | September 08, 2009
Let battle commence
Tony Kushner: Mother Courage is not just an anti-war play It is the mother of all roles - and arguments still rage over its true meaning, but Mother Courage is Brecht's greatest work
In this article: Mother Courage, Tony Kushner, Mother Courage and Her Children, Pablo Picasso, Christianity, Capitalism, Thirty Years war, and Berliner Ensemble
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Guardian Unlimited | September 03, 2009
Habib Tanvir
Tanvir is best known for Charandas Chor, his play about a thief who is also a man of his word. Photograph: Sudhanva Deshpande The playwright and theatre director Habib Tanvir, who has...
In this article: Habib Tanvir, Mumbai, Berlin, Aesthetics, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and New Theatre
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Guardian Unlimited | September 02, 2009
Where are today's public intellectuals?
Brisk reviews aren't enough - writing about the theatre must be as bold and experimental as great theatre. But which voices have made it into the mainstream? Susan Sontag, seen here in...
In this article: Susan Sontag, Theodor Adorno, Robert Wilson, Aesthetics, JavaScript, Berliner Ensemble, and Endgame
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Yahoo! News | July 30, 2009
German director Peter Zadek dead at 83: theatre (AFP)
AFP/File - German director Peter Zadek (R) poses with actress Eva Mattes prior to a rehearsal of William Shakespeare's … 50 mins ago BERLIN (AFP) - Legendary German theatre and film...
In this article: Peter Zadek, Hamburg, Agence France Presse, London, Berlin, Mozart, Angela Winkler, The Merchant of Venice, and Hamlet
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Wikipedia | July 27, 2009
Berliner Ensemble
The Berliner Ensemble is a German theatre company established by playwright Bertolt Brecht and his wife, Helene Weigel in January 1949 in East Berlin. In the time after Brecht's exile,...
In this article: Berliner Ensemble, Heiner Muller, Helene Weigel, Hanns Eisler, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Alexander Frey, Wolfgang Langhoff, and Paul Dessau
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Independent.co.uk - Film & TV | July 16, 2009
Back to the Fuhrer at the movies
Back to the F�hrer at the movies SS zombies? Hitler in drag? The Nazis are again being used as all-purpose villains by a slew of film-makers. Only this time, argues Geoffrey Macnab,...
In this article: Nazism, Nazis, Iron Sky, Inglourious Basterds, Second World War, Quentin Tarantino, Will Hay, Udo Kier, and Germany
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Times Online | June 28, 2009
Rufus Wainwright opera opens in Manchester
Navigation - link to other main sections from here Rufus Wainwright opera opens in Manchester Verdi-inspired Canadian-American songwriter works with the orchestra of Opera North and...
In this article: Rufus Wainwright, Prima Donna, Maria Callas, Hector Berlioz, Opera North, and Trademark