Mother Courage And Her Children

Author : Dan O'Brien
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781783195909

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The Body of an American by Dan O'Brien Pdf

Mogadishu, 1993. Paul is a Canadian photojournalist who is about to take a picture that will win him the Pulitzer Prize. Princeton, the present day, Dan is an American writer who is struggling to finish his play about ghosts. Both men live worlds apart but a chance encounter over the airwaves sparks an extraordinary friendship that sees them journey from some of the most dangerous places on earth to the depths of the human soul.Flying from Kabul to the Canadian High Arctic, The Body of an American sees two actors jump between more than thirty roles in an exhilarating new form of documentary drama. It urgently places these two men’s battles – both public and private –against a backdrop of some of the world’s most iconic images of war. The Body of an American is the recipient of the 2013 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History. It also received the PEN Center USA Award for Drama and the L. Arnold Weissberger Award, and premiered at Portland Center Stage in 2012, directed by Bill Rauch. The play was the recipient of the McKnight National Residency & Commission from the Playwrights’ Center, as well as a Sundance Institute Time Warner Storytelling Fellowship and a TCG Future Collaborations Grant. For further information and resources on this play, visit the Edward M Kennedy website: http://kennedyprize.columbia.edu/winners/2013/obrien/

Author : Bertolt Brecht,David Hare
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Drama
ISBN : WISC:89066708298

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Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht,David Hare Pdf

Anna Fierling tries to hold her family together during the Thirty Years War.

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648
ISBN : 0573612528

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Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht Pdf

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648
ISBN : UOM:39015005143303

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Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht Pdf

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780802198815

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Endgame and Act Without Words by Samuel Beckett Pdf

Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our time. Endgame, originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett himself, is considered by many critics to be his greatest single work. A pinnacle of Beckett’s characteristic raw minimalism, it is a pure and devastating distillation of the human essence in the face of approaching death.

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Methuen Drama
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015069372582

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Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht Pdf

Mother Courage and Her Children is widely regarded as Brecht's best work, a theatrical landmark and one of the most powerful anti-war plays in history. This translation by Michael Hofmann was published to coincide with the UK tour by English Touring Theatre in 2006. In this chronicle of the Thirty Years War of the seventeenth century, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon. As the action of the play progresses between the years 1624 and 1646 she loses her children to the war but remains indomitable, refusing to part with her livelihood - the wagon. The play is one of the most celebrated examples of Epic Theatre and of Brecht's use of alienation effect to focus attention on the issues of the play above the individual characters. It remains regarded as one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century and one of the great anti-war plays of all time. The Berlin production of 1949, with Helene Weigel as Mother Courage, marked the foundation of the Berliner Ensemble. Translated by the celebrated, German-born translator Michael Hofmann who has won multiple awards for his translation of works from German into English, the stage production was acclaimed for his 'gutsy,colloquial translation' (The Stage).

Author : Edward Bond
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408178096

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Saved by Edward Bond Pdf

Described by its author as 'almost irresponsibly optimistic', Saved is a play set in London in the sixties. Its subject is the cultural poverty and frustration of a generation of young people on the dole and living on council estates. The play was first staged privately in November 1965 at the Royal Court Theatre before members of the English Stage Society in a time when plays were still censored. With its scenes of violence, including the stoning of a baby, Saved became a notorious play and a cause célèbre. In a letter to the Observer, Sir Laurence Olivier wrote: 'Saved is not a play for children but it is for grown-ups, and the grown-ups of this country should have the courage to look at it.' Saved has had a marked influence on a whole new generation writing in the 1990s. Edward Bond is "a great playwright - many, particularly in continental Europe, would say the greatest living English playwright" (Independent)

Author : Lena K. Sadler,William S. Sadler
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547137672

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The Mother and Her Child by Lena K. Sadler,William S. Sadler Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Mother and Her Child" by Lena K. Sadler, William S. Sadler. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Martin McDonagh
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408173831

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The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh Pdf

The Beauty Queen of Leenane tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag her manipulative ageing mother whose interference in Maureen's first and potentially last loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that is as gothically funny as it is horrific.

Author : Peter Thomson,Viv Gardner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997-12-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521597749

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Brecht: Mother Courage and Her Children by Peter Thomson,Viv Gardner Pdf

This is the first comprehensive study of Brecht's Mother Courage. Peter Thomson locates the sources of the play in Brecht's own experience and heritage, and provides a detailed account of Brecht's own production with the newly formed Berliner Ensemble in 1949. Thomson then explores how the play has been transmitted in the English-speaking theatre from Joan Littlewood's production with the Theatre Workshop Company in 1956 to the Royal National Theatre, with Diana Rigg as Mother Courage, in 1995. The book also examines such influential interpretations as those by William Gaskill, Judi Dench, and Glenda Jackson in the English theatre, and by Herbert Balu and Richard Schechner in America. Seminal productions in France and the Germanies are also discussed. A final chapter highlights the new urgency of the text in light of the wars in the former Yugoslavia, and closes with an account of a triumphant staging in Uganda.

Author : Alfred D. White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:49015001194068

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Bertolt Brecht's Great Plays by Alfred D. White Pdf

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472582744

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The Business Affairs of Mr Julius Caesar by Bertolt Brecht Pdf

Bertolt Brecht's extraordinary historical novel presents an aspiring scholar's efforts to write an idealized life of Julius Caesar twenty years after his death. But the historian abandons his planned biography, confronted by a baffling range of contradictory views. Was Caesar an opportunist, a permanently bankrupt businessman who became too big for the banks to allow him to fail – as his former banker claims? Did he stumble into power while trying to make money, as suggested by the diary of his former slave? Across these different versions of Caesar's career in the political and economic life of Rome, Brecht wryly contrasts the narratives of imperial progress with the reality of grasping self-interest, in a sly allegory that points to the Weimar Republic and perhaps even to our own times. Brecht reminds his readers of the need for constant vigilance and critical suspicion towards the great figures of the past. In an echo of his dramatic theories, the audience is confronted with its own task of active interpretation rather than passive acceptance -- we have to work out our own views about Mr Julius Caesar. This edition is translated by Charles Osborne and features an introduction and editorial notes by Anthony Phelan and Tom Kuhn.

Author : Kim de Blecourt
Publisher : FaithWords
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781455515097

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Until We All Come Home by Kim de Blecourt Pdf

When Kim de Blecourt and her husband decided to adopt a child from Ukraine, they knew that the process might be challenging. Nothing, however, could have prepared de Blecourt for the twisted nightmare she would endure. During her year-long struggle to extricate her newly adopted little boy from that post-Soviet country's corrupt social service and judicial systems, de Blecourt was intimidated, physically assaulted, and arrested. Worse, her months of loneliness, worry, and fear drove her to the brink of spiritual despair. But God had no intention of abandoning de Blecourt or her family. Her amazing story-culminating in a spine-chilling race to freedom-offers dramatic proof that God's light shines on even in the deepest darkness.

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408161012

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The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht Pdf

This Student Edition of Brecht's classic dramatisation of the conflict over possession of a child features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and language as well as questions for further study and notes on words and phrases in the text. It is the perfect edition for students of theatre and literature. Brecht projects an ancient Chinese story onto a realistic setting in Soviet Georgia. In a theme that echoes the Judgment of Solomon, two women argue over the possession of a child; thanks to the unruly judge, Azdak (one of Brecht's most vivid creations) natural justice is done and the peasant Grusha keeps the child she loves, even though she is not its mother. Written in exile in the United States during the Second World War, The Caucasian Chalk Circle is a politically-charged, much-revived and complex example of Brecht's epic theatre. This volume contains expert notes on the author's life and work, historical and political background to the play, photographs from stage productions and a glossary of difficult words and phrases. It features the acclaimed translation by James and Tania Stern with W. H. Auden.

Author : Bertolt Brecht,Eric Bentley
Publisher : Samuel French Trade
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573698414

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Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht,Eric Bentley Pdf

Full Length, Drama w/music / 18m, 5f, extras /Int./5 Exts. This German play was written in 1939 and was first produced in Zurich in 1941. In America, it was published in English right away (1941, by New Directions) but did not reach Broadway till 1963 - in a memorable production directed by Jerome Robbins and starring Anne Bancroft. It had, of course, by that time been produced to much acclaim all over the world. When Bertolt Brecht directed the play in Munich (1950), Eric Bentley, Assistant Director, at his bidding started to translate the play into English. He was eventually to make several different English versions of it. The most interesting of these is published here. It was a collaboration with the eminent French composer Darius Milhaud. Together they made this remarkable contribution to musical theatre.