Space and Time in Epic Theater - The Brechtian Legacy

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - spatio-temporality as sign in epic theatre; theatre for the age of mechanical warfare - Piscator directs "The Good Soldier Schwejk"; into the whirlwind - Brecht directs "Mother Courage"; gestic writing and the true-real body - Brecht adapts "The Tutor"; "Peer Gynt" as epic theatre - Peter Stein in Berlin and Rustom Bharucha in India; JoAnne Akalaitis's postmodern epic staging of Leon and Lena (& Lenz); gender, empire and body politic - Ariane Mnouchkine's "Les Atrides"; afterword - epic theatre and the imagination of history.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Sarah Bryant-Bertail, Sarah Bryant-Bertrail
• Verlag: Camden House
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.01.2000
• Seiten: 256
• Abmessung: 160 mm x 230 mm x 21 mm
• Gewicht: 528 g
• Serie: Studies in German Literature,
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Theater, Ballett