Brecht on Performance: Messingkauf and Modelbooks Contributor(s): Brecht, Bertolt (Author), Kuhn, Tom (Editor), Silberman, Marc (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1408154552 ISBN-13: 9781408154557 Publisher: Methuen Drama
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: January 2015 Click for more in this series: Performance Books |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Drama - Performing Arts | Theater - Stagecraft & Scenography |
Dewey: 792.023 |
LCCN: 2014486345 |
Series: Performance Books |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.2" W x 8.4" L (0.85 lbs) 312 pages |
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Brecht on Performance: Messingkauf and Modelbooks 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. 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Brecht, Bertolt: - Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists whose plays, work with the Berliner Ensemble and critical writings have had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include The Threepenny Opera, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, The Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and Her Children and The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Silberman, Marc: - "Marc Silberman is Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA. He is the co-editor of the completely revised and updated third edition of Brecht on Theatre and of Brecht on Performance (both 2014), and editor of Brecht on Film & Radio." |
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