Bertolt Brecht

...confrontational, unexpected - these words best describe Charles L. Mee's fun and frequently irreverent rewriting of history and Bertolt Brecht's play "The Caucasian Chalk Circle." Set in Berlin at the time of the Wall's fall in 1989, the...

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...(free p&p) from the Independent Bookshop: 08430 600 030 Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht, By Erdmut Wizisla trans Christine Shuttleworth Bertolt Brecht is back at the National Theatre this season and Enron, Lucy Prebble's hit, has...

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...handle. Catalyst's revival of "1984" was well reviewed and attended, says Artistic Director Scott Fortier, but its second show, Bertolt Brecht's "Roundheads and Peakheads," in March did not do well, and the third show, "Bruise Easy," was...

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...in the third person, before they do it. Smile or scowl or touch someone. Yet instead of distancing us from the narrative, a la Bertolt Brecht, this stylistic device draws us in deeper. It's as if we had a share in weaving the narrative and...

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The Good Soul of Szechuan | Theatre review Bertolt Brecht noted in his journal that The Good Soul of Szechuan "caused me more trouble than any play I ever did ... It is a play that needs to be perfectly finished, and it isn't." Even if such...

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...was business. " That's actually one of the best-turned lines in the whole thousand pages. If it sounds a bit like Bertolt Brecht on an average day, it's because Larsson's own views were old-shoe Communist. His background involved...

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...to him. But then Biggar studied drama at A level, performing in school productions of Blood Brothers by Willy Russell and Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Biggar is shy about this, but it is interesting how he copes with the...

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...in the simplest of his harmonies. And that's even before you consider the words. Weill was inspired by some remarkable lyricists -- Bertolt Brecht, Ira Gershwin, Walter Mehring, Roger Fernay, Maurice Magre, Maxwell Anderson -- who found fresh...

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...as a failed escaper - and now runs a thriving business. We walked along the banks of the Spree, past the Berliner Ensemble, Bertolt Brecht's theatre, and Ganymed, old East Berlin's stuffy, showcase restaurant. Twenty years ago the path ended a...

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...Walther Ulbricht's assertion that the "State had lost confidence in the people," prompting disillusioned Communist writer Bertolt Brecht to ask if the regime intended to choose another population to misrule. Like all who lived...

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