A fascinating anthology that brings together in one volume many of the most important articles written about Brecht between 1957 and 1997. These essays are an ideal companion to Brecht's plays
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A fascinating anthology that brings together in one volume many of the most important articles written about Brecht between 1957 and 1997. These essays are an ideal companion to Brecht's plays
Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Contributors; 1 On Chinese Acting; 2 Theatre for Learning; 3 An Epic Theatre Catechism; 4 Are Stanislavsky and Brecht Commensurable?; 5 Brecht's Concept of Gestus and the American Performance Tradion; 6 Beyond Bourgeois Theatre; 7 Gestus in Music; 8 Composing for BB; 9 Actors on Brecht: The Munich Years; 10 Bertolt Brecht's J.B.; 11 Baden Lehrstück; 12 The Beggar or The Dead Dog; 13 The Dialectics of Galileo; 14 The Dispute Over the Valley; 15 Prologue to The Caucasian Chalk Circle; 16 Brecht and the English Theatre; 17 The Death of Mother Courage
18 Brecht and Chicano Theatre19 Brecht and Latin America's "Theatre of Revolution"; 20 Political Displacements; 21 The Actor's Involvement; 22 Brechtian Theory and American Feminist Theatre; 23 Brecht, Feminism, and Chinese Theatre; Index
