Brecht On Performance

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408159507

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Brecht on Performance by Bertolt Brecht Pdf

Brecht on Performance: Dialogues, Models, Practice Pieces presents a selection of Brecht's principle writings for actors and directors and is suitable for acting schools, directors, actors, students and teachers of Theatre Studies. Through these texts Brecht provides a general practical approach to acting and to realising texts for the stage that crystallises and makes concrete many of the more theoretical aspects of his other writing. The volume features a corpus of theatre materials, production records from Brecht's work with the Berliner Ensemble and practice pieces for actors, most of which has not previously been published in the English language. Edited by an international team of Brecht scholars and including a section by director and teacher Di Trevis examining the practical application of the texts for theatres and actors today, it is a wonderfully rich resource. Texts include: A Dialogue About Acting and realted pieces The Street Scene a newly edited version of The Messingkauf Dialogues Practice scene for actors based on texts by Shakespeare, Schiller and Homer extracts from the Model Books recording productions of Galileo and Mother Courage The text is illustrated with over 30 photographs from the Model Books.

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350077089

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Brecht on Performance by Bertolt Brecht Pdf

Now available in Bloomsbury Revelations series, Brecht on Performance: Messingkauf and Modelbooks presents a selection of Brecht's principal writings about the craft of acting and realising texts for the stage. It crystallises and makes concrete many of the more theoretical aspects of his other writing and illuminates the practice of this hugely influential director and dramatist. The volume is in two parts. The first features an entirely new commentated edition of Brecht's dialogues and essays about the practice of theatre, known as the Messingkauf, or Buying Brass, including the 'Practice Pieces' for actors (rehearsal scenes for classics by Shakespeare and Schiller). The second contains rehearsal and production records from Brecht's work on productions of Life of Galileo, Antigone, Mother Courage and others. Edited by an international team of Brecht scholars and including an essay by director and teacher Di Trevis examining the practical application of these texts for theatres and actors today, Brecht on Performance is a wonderfully rich resource. The text is illustrated with over 30 photographs from the Modelbooks.

Author : Meg Mumford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781351180788

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Bertolt Brecht by Meg Mumford Pdf

Bertolt Brecht’s methods of collective experimentation, and his unique framing of the theatrical event as a forum for change, placed him among the most important contributors to the theory and practice of theatre. His work continues to have a significant impact on performance practitioners, critics and teachers alike. Now revised and reissued, this book combines: an overview of the key periods in Brecht’s life and work a clear explanation of his key theories, including the renowned ideas of Gestus and Verfremdung an account of his groundbreaking 1954 production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle an in-depth analysis of his practical exercises and rehearsal methods. As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners are an invaluable resource for students and scholars.

Author : Baz Kershaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136284649

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The Radical in Performance by Baz Kershaw Pdf

The Radical in Performance investigates the crisis in contemporary theatre, and celebrates the subversive in performance. It is the first full-length study to explore the link between a western theatre which, says Kershaw, is largely outdated and the blossoming of postmodern performance, much of which has a genuinely radical edge. In staying focused on the period between Brecht and Baudrillard, modernity and postmodernism, Baz Kershaw identifies crucial resources for the revitalisation of the radical across a wide spectrum of cultural practices. This is a timely, necessary and rigorous book. It will be a compelling read for anyone searching for a critical catalyst for new ways of viewing and practising cultural politics.

Author : David Barnett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781408186022

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Brecht in Practice by David Barnett Pdf

David Barnett invites readers, students and theatre-makers to discover new ways of apprehending and making use of Brecht in this clear and accessible study of Brecht's theories and practices. The book analyses how Brecht's ideas can come alive in rehearsal and performance, and reveals just how carefully Brecht realized his vision of a politicized, interventionist theatre. What emerges is a nuanced understanding of Brecht's concepts, his work with actors and his approaches to directing. The reader is encouraged to engage with his method which sought to 'make theatre politically', in order to appreciate the innovations he introduced into his stagecraft. Barnett provides many examples of how Brecht's ideas can be staged, and the final chapter takes a closer look at two very different plays: one written by Brecht and one by a playwright with no acknowledged connection to Brecht. Through an interrogation of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui and Patrick Marber's Closer, Barnett asks how a Brechtian approach can enliven and illuminate production.

Author : Meg Mumford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781134188055

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Bertolt Brecht by Meg Mumford Pdf

Routledge Performance Practitioners is a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century. Each volume explains the background to and the work of one of the major influences on twentieth- and twenty-first-century performance. Bertolt Brecht is amongst the world’s most profound contributors to the theory and practice of theatre. His methods of collective experimentation and his unique framing of the theatrical event as a forum for aesthetic and political change continue to have a significant impact on the work of performance practitioners, critics and teachers alike. This is the first book to combine: an overview of the key periods in Brecht's life and work a clear explanation of his key theories, including the renowned ideas of Gestus and Verfremdung an account of his groundbreaking 1954 production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle an in-depth analysis of Brecht's practical exercises and rehearsal methods As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners are unbeatable value for today’s student. Meg Mumford is a lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies at The University of New South Wales, Australia. She has published widely on the subject of Brecht’s theatre and contemporary appropriations of his theory and practice.

Author : Janelle G. Reinelt
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0472084089

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After Brecht by Janelle G. Reinelt Pdf

How contemporary British political theater has evolved and expanded from the legacy of Bertolt Brecht

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350077072

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Brecht on Performance by Bertolt Brecht Pdf

Now available in Bloomsbury Revelations series, Brecht on Performance: Messingkauf and Modelbooks presents a selection of Brecht's principal writings about the craft of acting and realising texts for the stage. It crystallises and makes concrete many of the more theoretical aspects of his other writing and illuminates the practice of this hugely influential director and dramatist. The volume is in two parts. The first features an entirely new commentated edition of Brecht's dialogues and essays about the practice of theatre, known as the Messingkauf, or Buying Brass, including the 'Practice Pieces' for actors (rehearsal scenes for classics by Shakespeare and Schiller). The second contains rehearsal and production records from Brecht's work on productions of Life of Galileo, Antigone, Mother Courage and others. Edited by an international team of Brecht scholars and including an essay by director and teacher Di Trevis examining the practical application of these texts for theatres and actors today, Brecht on Performance is a wonderfully rich resource. The text is illustrated with over 30 photographs from the Modelbooks.

Author : MEG MUMFORD
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0415354323

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BERTOLT BRECHT by MEG MUMFORD Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004404502

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Philosophizing Brecht by Anonim Pdf

This interdisciplinary anthology unites scholars with the notion that Bertolt Brecht is a missing link in bridging diverse discourses in social philosophy and aesthetics—an essential read for all those interested in Brecht as a socio-cultural theorist and theatre practitioners.

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Acting
ISBN : 1408166402

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Brecht on Performance by Bertolt Brecht Pdf

'Brecht on Performance' presents a selection of Brecht's principal writings for directors and theatre practitioners, and is suitable for acting schools, directors, actors, students and teachers of theatre studies. Through these texts Brecht provides a general practical approach to acting and to realising texts for the stage that crystallises and makes concrete many of the more theoretical aspects of his other writing.

Author : Stephen Unwin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408150313

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A Guide To The Plays Of Bertolt Brecht by Stephen Unwin Pdf

Stephen Unwin's A Guide to the Plays of Bertolt Brecht is an indispensable, comprehensive and highly readable companion to the dramatic work of this challenging and rewarding writer. Besides providing detailed accounts of nineteen key plays, it explores their context and Brecht's dramatic theory to equip readers with a rich understanding of how Brecht's work was shaped by his times and by his evolving thinking about the function of theatre. Bertolt Brecht's work as a director, his critical and theoretical writing, and above all the remarkable plays that emerged from one of the most turbulent periods in history have had a profound and lasting influence on theatre. Central to theatre studies courses and whose plays are frequently revived on stage, Brecht is nevertheless perceived as a difficult writer. This companion is divided into two sections: the first seven chapters outline the tumultuous historical, cultural and theatrical context of Brecht's work. They explore his theatrical theory and provide an account of his approach to staging his plays which informs an understanding of how they work in practice. The second section provides an analysis of nineteen plays in six chronological groupings, each prefaced by a brief sketch of Brecht's life and theatrical development in that period. For each play, Stephen Unwin offers a synopsis, a critical commentary and an account of the work in performance. The book concludes with an examination of Brecht's legacy and a chronicle of his life and times. Written by experienced theatre director Stephen Unwin, this is the perfect companion to Brecht's plays and life for student and theatre practitioner alike.

Author : Gad Kaynar,Linda Ben-Zvi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9657314100

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Bertolt Brecht by Gad Kaynar,Linda Ben-Zvi Pdf

Author : Loren Kruger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521817080

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Post-Imperial Brecht by Loren Kruger Pdf

Post-Imperial Brecht challenges prevailing views of Brecht's theatre and politics. Kruger focuses much of her analysis in regions where Brecht has had special resonance, including East Germany, and South Africa, where Brechtian philosophy has been vigorously employed in the anti-apartheid movement. Kruger also analyses political interpretations of Brecht in light of other key dramatists, including Heiner MÜller and Athol Fugard. The book also examines Brechtian influence on writers and philosophers such as Adorno, Benjamin, and Barthes.

Author : Stephen Brockmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108634144

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Bertolt Brecht in Context by Stephen Brockmann Pdf

Bertolt Brecht in Context examines Brecht's significance and contributions as a writer and the most influential playwright of the twentieth century. It explores the specific context from which he emerged in imperial Germany during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as Brecht's response to the turbulent German history of the twentieth century: World Wars One and Two, the Weimar Republic, the Nazi dictatorship, the experience of exile, and ultimately the division of Germany into two competing political blocs divided by the postwar Iron Curtain. Throughout this turbulence, and in spite of it, Brecht managed to remain extraordinarily productive, revolutionizing the theater of the twentieth century and developing a new approach to language and performance. Because of his unparalleled radicalism and influence, Brecht remains controversial to this day. This book – with a Foreword by Mark Ravenhill – lays out in clear and accessible language the shape of Brecht's contribution and the reasons for his ongoing influence.