Bertolt Brecht /
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
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2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Life of Flux
- Which Brecht?
- On the make: from Bavaria to Berlin (1898-1924)
- Changing the world: Weimar politics (1924-33)
- On the run: exile in Europe and America (1933-47)
- Building a collective: Brecht in the GDR (1947-56)
- Brecht today?
- 2. Brecht's Key Theories
- Brecht in dialogue
- Brecht's key concerns
- Getting the gist of Gestus
- Verfremdung and V-effects
- Historicization: questioning the present through the past
- modern theatre is the epic theatre
- Dialectics in the theatre
- Brecht's socialist realism: imitation meets experimentation
- Conclusion
- 3. Caucasian Chalk Circle: A Model Production
- Prologue: a model
- historicizing epic
- Berliner Ensemble show
- Epilogue: `The proof of the pudding is in the eating'
- 4. Practical Exercises and Workshop
- Preparing for spectActorship
- Section One Remembering exercises from the past
- Section Two workshop for Brechtians
- Conclusion.