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Brecht: Mother Courage and her Children: Plays in Production

Autor Peter Thomson Contribuţii de Viv Gardner
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 dec 1997
This is the first comprehensive study of Brecht's Mother Courage. Peter Thomson locates the sources of the play in Brecht's own experience and heritage, and provides a detailed account of Brecht's own production with the newly formed Berliner Ensemble in 1949. Thomson then explores how the play has been transmitted in the English-speaking theatre from Joan Littlewood's production with the Theatre Workshop Company in 1956 to the Royal National Theatre, with Diana Rigg as Mother Courage, in 1995. The book also examines such influential interpretations as those by William Gaskill, Judi Dench, and Glenda Jackson in the English theatre, and by Herbert Balu and Richard Schechner in America. Seminal productions in France and the Germanies are also discussed. A final chapter highlights the new urgency of the text in light of the wars in the former Yugoslavia, and closes with an account of a triumphant staging in Uganda.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521597746
ISBN-10: 0521597749
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 10 b/w illus.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Plays in Production

Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

List of illustrations; General preface; Acknowledgements; A note on translation; 1. Sources; 2. The text and the stage; 3. The Berlin production: 1949; 4. Mother Courage in English; 5. Mother Courage in the Germanies and in France; 6. The afterlife of Mother Courage ; Productions cited; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

Recenzii

'Mother Courage as revealed by Peter Thomson is refreshingly engaging both intellectually and in its aesthetic appeal.' Studies in Theatre Production

Descriere

An accessible study of the production history of Mother Courage and Her Children, a key twentieth-century play.