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Engaging with Brecht: Making Theatre in the 21st Century de Bill Gelber

Engaging with Brecht: Making Theatre in the 21st Century

Autor Bill Gelber
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 apr 2022
This book provides readers with a practical examination of the work of theorist, playwright, director, and poet, Bertolt Brecht. It offers fresh approaches to theatre professionals seeking new tools for analysis, staging methods, means of collaborating with production teams and ways of politically engaging with society.Engaging with Brecht: Making Theatre in the 21st Centuryis an essential volume for instructors, scholars and theatre artists, containing lucid explanations and modern examples of Brecht's concepts. Featuring a wide variety of hands-on exercises, it illuminates Brecht's methods for the classroom and the rehearsal hall, equipping readers with tried and tested approaches to theatrical creation. Brecht's wide-ranging interests are reflected in the model for an interdisciplinary course of study that encompasses theatre history, playwriting, dramaturgy, design, acting, and directing. Rather than serving as a prescriptive manual,Engaging with Brechtallows the teacher, student, and theatre practitioner to experiment with the various methods provided in order to realize their own aims in instruction and production, revealing the continued importance and relevance of Brecht's work in today's world. The book offers new examples of and uses for such important Brechtian concepts asVerfremdung,Haltung, Arrangement,Gestus, Historicization, andFigureand applies them to work in the classroom and on stage in order to rethink our analysis and presentation of both classic and new plays.
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ISBN-13: 9781350043299
ISBN-10: 135004329X
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 15 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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Features many practical and innovative approaches to teaching Brecht's methods in the classroom and rehearsal hall

Notă biografică

Dr. Bill Gelberis an Associate Professor of Theatre at Texas Tech University, USA, where he teaches pedagogy, acting and directing at graduate and undergraduate levels, including courses in Shakespeare performance and studies of Bertolt Brecht, Harold Pinter, and Samuel Beckett. He has directed over 60 productions in various genres including plays by Brecht, Shakespeare, Pirandello, Williams and Pinter.

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Preface - Collaboration Is KeyA Collective Forms/Enter the Brecht CircleTo Engage with BrechtBrecht ScholarshipExploration and PracticeAcknowledgementsSynopsis ofMother CourageTheatre PoetryChapter 1 - Where Are We?VerfremdungOpen Our EyesBlame the Ever-ThusesVerfremdung: A New Pair of GlassesAvoiding Presentism with HistoricizationRefunctioning the ClassicsTraining the Twenty-First-Century Artist inVerfremdungSubverting Art for ChangeCollective CreativityVersucheMother CourageStudiesTheatre PoetryChapter 2 - Meta-Narratives: Adding Footnotes and Highlighting ContradictionsGestus: Revealing Social RelationsPointing Out the ContradictionsDividing the Drama into EpisodesRevealing Contradictions Through the "Not...But" Adding LiterarizationVersucheMother CourageStudiesTheatre PoetryChapter 3 - TheFabelIs the MapIn Search of theFabelCreating theFabelAlternateFabelAnalysis: The Short Story ExerciseVersucheMother CourageStudiesTheatre PoetryChapter 4 - Arrange the PiecesEnter Caspar NeherChoreographingGestusTesting theFabelin Rehearsal Adding Scenic ElementsConsiderations forStellprobenMaking Adjustments with ActorsBringing It All TogetherVersucheMother CourageStudiesTheatre PoetryChapter 5 - Social Attitudes on Display:Haltungand StatusHow Actors RevealGestusContradictions Within the FigureEnter Keith JohnstoneTeaching Status/HaltungHaltungin ActionHaltungas IlluminationHaltungfor TableauxHaltungon the PageVersucheMother CourageStudiesTheatre PoetryChapter 6 - Brecht and StanislavskyThe System as ModelThe Method of Physical ActionsWhere to BeginObjectives, Obstacles, and ActionsRaising the StakesBeat/HaltungChangesSociological ConstraintsStanislavsky Versus BrechtVersucheMother CourageStudiesTheatre PoetryChapter 7 - "Not Stanislavsky...But Brecht"Theatre as ManipulationThe Dangers of EmpathyThe Need for Critical DistanceThird-Person/Past TenseThe Reporting ExerciseThe Street Scene ExerciseThe Triangle: Actor, Figure, SpectatorPlaying the Double ActThe Construction of IdentityExploring the Role of the ActorA Step-by-Step SequenceVersucheMother CourageStudiesTheatre PoetryChapter 8 - Document, Document, DocumentBritish Model BooksEstablishing the How and WhyRuth Berlau and DocumentationDramaturgical PracticesTakingNotateCreating the Model BookModel Books Meet the Twenty-First CenturyA Springboard for New InterpretationsVersucheMother CourageStudiesTheatre PoetryAfterword - Twenty-First-Century Engagement: Where Do We Go from HereBrecht in the Twenty-First CenturyAs Long as the World Needs ChangingAppendix 1 - A Production ProcessAppendix 2 - Approach to a Scene Using Brecht and StanislavskyAppendix 3 - Suggested Brecht Scenes for ExercisesIndexReferencesBibliographyResourcesAbout the Author

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This book makes the case for Bertolt Brecht’s continued importance at a time when events of the 21st century cry out for a studied means of producing theatre for social change. Here is a unique step-by-step process for realizing Brecht’s ways of working onstage using the 2015 Texas Tech University production of Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children as a model for exploration. Particular Brecht concepts—the epic, Verfremdung, the Fabel, gestus, historicization, literarization, the “Not…but,” Arrangement, and the Separation of the Elements—are explained and applied to scenes and plays. Brecht’s complicated relationship with Konstantin Stanislavsky is also explored in relation to their separate views on acting. For theatrical practitioners and educators, this volume is a record of pedagogical engagement, an empirical study of Brecht’s work in performance at a higher institution of learning using graduate and undergraduate students.

Bill Gelber is a Professor of Theatre in Acting, Directing, and Pedagogy at Texas Tech University, USA. He has been published in the Brecht Yearbook, Communications of the International Brecht Society, Southern Theatre, Texas Theatre Journal, and Early Modern Literary Studies and was recently inducted into the Texas Tech Teaching Academy.