Performing Brecht / Margaret Eddershaw.

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Eddershaw, Margaret

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TextPublication details: New York : Routledge, 1996.Description: 1 online resource (x, 188 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0203129830
9780203129838
9781134895410
1134895410
9786610329236
6610329230
1280329238
9781280329234
1134895402
9781134895403

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Performing Brecht.DDC classification:

792.9/5/0941 21

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PT2603.R397 Z5935 1996eb

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Summary: Annotation Performing Brecht is an unprecedented history of the productions of Brecht's plays in Britain over forty years. Margaret Eddershaw surveys all aspects of Brecht in performance, from his methodologies to his place in postmodernist theatre and beyond. She focuses on key productions by directors including George Devine, Sam Wanamaker, William Gaskill, Howard Davies, John Dexter and Richard Eyre. Eddershaw also provides three in-depth case studies of productions in the 1990s, incorporating her own exclusive access to the rehearsals and in-depth interviews with directors and performers. The case studies are: *The Good Person of Sechuan, directed by Deborah Warner and starring Fiona Shaw; *Mother Courage, directed by Philip Prowse and starring Glenda Jackson; *The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui, directed by Di Trevis and starring Antony Sher

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-180) and index.

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Annotation Performing Brecht is an unprecedented history of the productions of Brecht's plays in Britain over forty years. Margaret Eddershaw surveys all aspects of Brecht in performance, from his methodologies to his place in postmodernist theatre and beyond. She focuses on key productions by directors including George Devine, Sam Wanamaker, William Gaskill, Howard Davies, John Dexter and Richard Eyre. Eddershaw also provides three in-depth case studies of productions in the 1990s, incorporating her own exclusive access to the rehearsals and in-depth interviews with directors and performers. The case studies are: *The Good Person of Sechuan, directed by Deborah Warner and starring Fiona Shaw; *Mother Courage, directed by Philip Prowse and starring Glenda Jackson; *The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui, directed by Di Trevis and starring Antony Sher

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