(P/B) ON THEATRE

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This selection of Bertolt Brecht's critical writing charts the development of his thinking on theatre and aesthetics over four decades. The volume demonstrates how the theories of Epic Theatre and Alienation evolved, and contains notes and essays on the staging of The Threepanny Opera, Mahagonny, Mother Courage, Puntila, Galileo and many others of his plays. Also included is A Short Organum for the Theatre, Brecht's most complete statement of his revolutionary philosophy of the theatre. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Introduction
PART ONE 1918-1932
1. Frank Wedekind
2. A Reckoning
3. Emphasis on Sport
4. Three Cheers for Shaw
5. Conversation with Bert Brecht
6. A Radio Speech
7. Shouldn't we Abolish Aesthetics?
8. The Epic Theatre and its Difficulties
9. Last Stage: Oedipus
10. A Dialogue about Acting
11. On Form and Subject-Matter
12. An Example of Paedagogics
13. The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre
14. The Literarization of the Theatre
15. The Film, the Novel and Epic Theatre
16. The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication
17. The Question of Criteria for Judging Acting
18. Indirect Impact of the Epic Theatre
PART TWO 1933-1947
19. Interview with an Exile
20. Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Institution
21. The German Drama: pre-Hitler
22. Criticism of the New York Production of Die Mutter
23. On the Use of Music in an Epic Theatre
24. Alienation Effects in Chinese Acting
25. Notes to Die Rundkopfe und die Spitzkopfe
26. On Gestic Music
27. The Popular and the Realistic
28. On Rhymeless Verse with Irregular Rhythms
29. The Street Scene
30. On Experimental Theatre
31. New Technique of Acting
32. Two Essays on Unprofessional Acting
33. Notes on the Folk Play
34. Alienation Effects in the Narrative Pictures of the Elder Brueghel
35. A Little Private Tuition for my Friend Max Gorelik
36. Building up a Part: Laughton's Galileo
37. "Der Messingkauf": an editorial note
PART THREE 1947-1948
38. A Short Organum for the Theatre
PART FOUR 1948-1956
39. Masterful Treatment of a Model
40. From the Mother Courage Model
41. Does Use of the Model Restrict the Artist's Freedom?
42. Formal Problems Arising from the Theatre's New Content
43. Stage Design for the Epic Theatre
44. From a Letter to an Actor
45. Some of the Things that can be Learnt from Stanislavsky
46. Theaterarbeit: an editorial note
47. Notes on Erwin Strittmatter's Play Katzgraben
48. Study of the First Scene of Shakespeare's Coriolanus
49. Cultural Policy and Academy of Arts
50. Conversation about being Forced into Empathy
51. Classical Status as an Inhibiting Factor
52. Can the Present-day World be Reproduced by Means of Theatre?
53. Appendices to the "Short Organum"
54. "Dialectics in the Theatre": an editorial note
55. Our London Season
Other English Translations
Index