Brecht Collected Plays: 3.2 : St Joan;Mother;Lindbergh's Flight;Baden-Baden;He Said Yes;Decision;Exception & Rule;Horatians & Cur Hardback
by Bertolt Brecht
Edited by John Willett, Ralph Manheim
Part of the World Classics series
Hardback
Description
"One of the greatest poets and dramatists of our century" (Observer) Brecht's Lehrstucke or short 'didactic' pieces written during the years 1929 to 1933, are some of his most experimental work.
Rejecting conventional theatre, they are spare and highly formalised, drawing on traditional Japanese and Chinese theatre.
They show Brecht in collaboration with the composers Hindemith, Weill and Eisler, influenced by the new techniques of montage in the visual arts and seeking new means of expression.
Brecht intended them for performance by schools, workers' groups and choral societies rather than by professionals, with the idea that the moral and political lessons contained in them are best conveyed by participating in an actual production. In addition to the Lehrstucke, the volume contains The Mother, a longer play, again with music by Eisler, based on the novel by Gorky.
A story of dawning political consciousness, told with irony and narrative drive, its central character is one of Brecht's great female roles.
The original production starred Brecht's wife Helene Weigel and Brecht was buried with the red flag that was a prop in the production.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:27/01/1997
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- ISBN:9780413708106
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:27/01/1997
- Category:
- ISBN:9780413708106
