Mumford Bertolt Brecht

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-18078-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 202 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Performance Practitioners

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mumford, Meg

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

- A LIFE OF FLUX

Which Brecht?

On the make: from Bavaria to Berlin (1898–1924)

Changing the world: Weimar politics (1924–33)

On the run: exile in Europe and America (1933–47)

Building a collective: Brecht in the GDR (1947–56)

Brecht today?

- BRECHT’S KEY THEORIES

Brecht in dialogue

Brecht’s key concerns

Getting the gist of Gestus

Verfremdung and V-effects

Historicization: questioning the present through the past

The modern theatre is the epic theatre

Dialectics in the theatre

Brecht’s socialist realism: imitation meets experimentation

Conclusion

- THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE: A MODEL PRODUCTION

Prologue: a model

A historicizing epic

A Berliner Ensemble show

Epilogue: ‘The proof of the pudding is in the eating’

- PRACTICAL EXERCISES AND WORKSHOP

Preparing for spectActorship

Section One: remembering exercises from the past

Section Two: a workshop for Brechtians

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Meg Mumford is a lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies at The University of New South Wales, Australia.