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The Decision (play) Don Juan (Brecht) Downfall of the Egotist Johann Fatzer; Downfall of the Egotist Johann Fatzer (American premiere) Driving Out a Devil; Drums in the Night; The Duchess of Malfi (Brecht)
Brecht, in his typical anti-realist style, uses the device of a "play within a play".The "frame" play is set in the Soviet Union around the end of the Second World War.It shows a dispute between two communes, the Collective Fruit Farm Galinsk fruit growing commune and the Collective Goat Farmers, over who is to own and manage an area of farm land after the Nazis have retreated from a village ...
The play—along with Baal and In the Jungle—won the Kleist Prize for 1922 (although it was widely assumed, perhaps because Drums was the only play of the three to have been produced at that point, that the prize had been awarded to Drums alone); the play was performed all over Germany as a result. [2]
It was the first premiere of Brecht's final season at the Berliner Ensemble. [3] Willett identifies an instance of Brecht's lifelong indebtedness to Rudyard Kipling in the play's "Song of the Women of Gaa." [4] The production strongly influenced the English director William Gaskill's reinterpretation of Farquhar's original play for the National ...
Man Equals Man (German: Mann ist Mann), or A Man's a Man, is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. One of Brecht's earlier works, it explores themes of war, human fungibility, and identity. [1]
Wuolijoki suggested a collaboration with Brecht on an entry for a competition run by the Finnish Dramatists' League for a "people's play," whose deadline was to fall in October. [5] The title page of Brecht's play describes it as "a people's play" that is "after stories and a draft play by Hella Wuolijoki."
Stripling: What was that ideal, Mr Brecht? Brecht: The idea in the old play was a religious idea. This young people – Stripling: Did it have to do with the Communist Party? Brecht: Yes. Stripling: And discipline within the Communist Party? Brecht: Yes, yes, it is a new play, an adaptation. —"From the Testimony of Bertolt Brecht" [32]
Bertolt Brecht in 1954. Epic theatre (German: episches Theater) is a theatrical movement that arose in the early to mid-20th century from the theories and practice of a number of theatre practitioners who responded to the political climate of the time through the creation of new political dramas.