Brecht: Mother Courage and Her Children

ISBN-13: 9780521597746 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 224 str.

Peter Thomson; Michael Robinson; Vivien Gardner

Opis

This is the first comprehensive study in English of Brecht's Mother Courage in production. Peter Thomson provides a detailed account of Brecht's own production in 1949 and then explores how the play has been transmitted--from Joan Littlewood's production in 1956 to the Royal National Theatre in 1995. The book also examines interpretations by Judi Dench, Glenda Jackson, and Richard Schechner, among others. Seminal productions from the continent are also analyzed and a final chapter examines the play's influence on among others, Peter Brook, and highlights the new urgency of the text in light of the wars in former Yugoslavia and Uganda.

Recenzje

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

Spis treści

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.