Sarah Bryant-Bertail

Space and Time in Epic Theater

The Brechtian Legacy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The development of epic theater before, during, and after Brecht's time, and analysis of epic productions, showing the form's continued relevance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781571131867
• ISBN-10: 1571131868
• Artikelnr.: 21045534

Autorenporträt

Sarah Bryant-Bertail

Inhaltsangabe

Ontroduction: Spatio-temporality as Sign in Epic Theater Theater for the
Age of Machanical Warfare: Piscator Directs The Good Soldier Schwejk Into
the Whirlwind: Bretch Directs Mother Courage Gestic Writing and the
True-Real Body: Brecht Adapts The Tutor Peer Gynt as Epic Theater: Peter
Stein in Berlin and Rustom Bharucha in India JoAnne Akalaitis's Postmodern
Epic Staging of Leon and Lena (& lenz) Gender, Empire and the Body Politic:
Ariane Mnouchkine's Les Atrides Afterword: Epic Theater and the Imagination
of History