Blogs about: Brecht

Act 3: Scene 1 - Character development

lelil wrote 9 hours ago: The term ‘scenography’ has evolved from its historical antecedents in classical antiquit … more →

Tags: resolution, McKinney and Butterworth, Mise en Scène, Neher, Ribeiro, Scenography, svoboda, Theatre Design

Backstage and Back Biting: Star Quality by Noel Coward

quiteirregular wrote 5 days ago: There’s a feeling you get about ten minutes into a Noel Coward play.  The lights have come up, the s … more →

Tags: theatre, Adaptation, Noel Coward, chiristopher luscombe, Amanda Donohoe

The sound of the invisible hand clapping

jaimeashworth wrote 1 week ago: The clearest indicator of the quality of The Low Road at the Royal Court is that a scene in which tw … more →

Tags: culture and politics, The Low Road, Bruce Norris, Royal Court, dominic cooke, economic inequality, Social Justice, Elizabeth Berrington, johnny flynn

Berthold Brecht, 1898-1956

Stephanie Barbé Hammer wrote 1 week ago: A maddening, complicated, and often nasty man (particularly to the women in his life), Berthold Brec … more →

Tags: Literature and Culture, Creative Writing 2, fear and misery of the third reich

Nurture 1, Nature 0

Minor Critics wrote 1 week ago: So, the plays of Bertolt Brecht. “Brechtian” is often shorthand for people onstage talki … more →

Tags: Theater, Classic Stage Company, caucasian chalk circle

Thinking about your RI - thought about Cabaret??? (& Brecht of course)

Paula Mor wrote 2 weeks ago: Lisa Appignanesi presents the cultural history of cabaret. Cabaret found joyful expression in Berlin … more →

Tags: theatre, Cabaret

Bad Time For Poetry--Bertolt Brecht

emilymaeve wrote 2 weeks ago: Yes, I know: only the successful manIs well-regarded. We are gladTo hear him speak. His face is hand … more →

Tags: Poetry, bad time, german, Poet

My daughter Goebbels4 comments

JOnKEnna wrote 3 weeks ago: I went to see a production of  The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui this week. It’s by Brecht; yes … more →

Tags: writer, life 2, art 2, writing, Acting, Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler, Nazi, Germany

we photographed the scene

acd2114 wrote 3 weeks ago: And so we put him up against a wall: A mother’s son, a man like we had been And shot him dead. … more →

Tags: Photomontage, collage, War, Photography, war primer

Interview mit Patrick Süskind

pq27 wrote 3 weeks ago: ProjectQ27: Trauen Sie Ihrem Verleger oder Agenten? Patrick Süskind: Bedingt. ProjectQ27: Glauben Si … more →

Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Jules Verne, Perfume, Paris, Pigeon, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, odor, Patrick Süskind, ProjectQ27

John Milton Is Cast Into The Eternal Darkness By The Sons Of Hibernia

willkeyesbyrne wrote 3 weeks ago: St Patrick introduced Christianity to Ireland but he did so before the Emperor Constantine had found … more →

Tags: General, Shakespeare, English Civil War, Milton, Cromwell, Ireland, Aldous Huxley

Wonderful Weimar

meinjahrimosten wrote 3 weeks ago: A year in the land of “Dichter und Denker” (poets and thinkers) would be somehow incomplete without … more →

Tags: Bauhaus, Weimar, buchenwald concentration camp, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, schiller, National Theatre

Theater of War1 comment

somewheretoelsewhere wrote 4 weeks ago: We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible withi … more →

Tags: theatre, postaday, meryl streep, Political theatre, Documentaries

Theatre of War - part 4: A behind the scenes look at The Public Theater's production of Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage"

Julia Fry wrote 4 weeks ago: At 12:42 in this video, Barbara Brecht, Brecht’s daughter, talking about what Brecht wanted fr … more →

Tags: reconfigured documentary, distantiation, theatre of war, Barbara Brecht

Impressions of ... Seul Contre Tous (Gaspar Noè)

richardparkin wrote 1 month ago: this is what critics might call a character study, a character study of a cunt – sorry, but th … more →

Tags: film, Impressions of..., Gaspar Noe, Jules et Jim, mon oncle d'amérique, Nihilism, Resentment, Violence

Can drama be feminist?

womensfightback17 wrote 1 month ago: By Sarah Weston In the study of arts-based subjects, the tendency might be to apply theories (“isms” … more →

Tags: women's fightback, Poetry & Prose, Feminism, Drama, theatre, Art, Judith Butler, performativity, Aphra Behn

ich fange jetzt mal an

undiszipliniert wrote 1 month ago: Vorgestern Abend war ich im Theater und habe mich geärgert. Soviel Schaumschlägerei und so humorlos … more →

Tags: Theater, Kochen

Bertold Brecht vs. Bank

Ad V~ wrote 1 month ago: Was ist schon der Einbruch in einer Bank gegen die Gründung einer Bank. [Bertold Brecht, Die Dreigro … more →

Tags: General Stuff, bank, bertold brecht, Dreigroschenoper

Marguerite got married

Johnny Goodyear wrote 1 month ago: I saw a waitress get married to the winner of a bar raffle last night. She was a big girl with bad s … more →

Tags: Religion, The American Alphabet, Prose, New York, Easter, Marriage, east village, bar life, Theater


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