This very early play of Brecht’s is almost notorious for its impenetrability. It is a brave company and a brave director who will take it on ... Split Moon and Peter Sturm have done so triumphantly.
Brecht’s Muses seem never to have shunned him: he penned roughly 2000 poems, in a panoply of registers, in manifold identities and personae, on all aspects of human apprehension. The selection in Love ...
Bertolt Brecht was a German playwright, director, and poet who is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in 20th-century theatre. Born on February 10, 1898, in Augsburg, Germany, ...
The friendship between Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht was a “conspiratorial rapport”. By Gavin Jacobson The first meeting between Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht did not go well. It took place ...
The German playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) inspired extremes of loyalty and antipathy. Brilliant, charismatic and seductive, he was professionally unreliable and personally deceptive.
The Wooster Group and Bertolt Brecht might seem like strange bedfellows, but the New York experimental troupe’s staging of “The Mother,” one of Brecht’s “learning plays,” left me wondering what took ...
Two poems showing a teenage Bertolt Brecht urging "real German men, of steel and iron" to resist a world "standing stiffly against us" have been attributed to the author for the first time, casting a ...
When you translate a play, you enter into a very intense and complex relationship with the playwright. Sometimes you feel as if you have invited them into your home. It's not always an agreeable ...
Mark Gatiss plays a Charlie Chaplin-like dictator in a timely Royal Shakespeare Company revival. By Houman Barekat Carnegie’s intermittently illuminating festival “Fall of the Weimar Republic” has ...
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