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Mother Courage and Her Children - Acting Edition
Large Mixed Cast
This German play was written in 1939 and was first produced in Zurich in 1941 When Bertolt Brecht directed the play in Munich (1950), Eric Bentley, Assistant Director, at his bidding started to translate…
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Large Mixed Cast
Published in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, this edition features an extensive introduction, Brecht's own notes on the play and a full appendix of textual variants It is the standard critical…
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Large Mixed Cast
A morality masterpiece, The Caucasian Chalk Circle powerfully demonstrates Brecht’s pioneering theatrical techniques A servant girl sacrifices everything to protect a child abandoned in the heat of civil…
The Caucasian Chalk Circle - STUDENT EDITION with Commentary + Notes
Large Mixed Cast
Written in exile during the Second World War, the story subverts an ancient Chinese tale - echoed in the Judgement of Solomon - in which two women claim the same child The message of Brecht's parable is…
Bertolt Brecht - Work Journals 1934-1955
*** 50% Discount *** Brecht's Work Journals cover the period from 1938 to 1955, the years of exile in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and America, and his return via Switzerland to East Berlin His criticisms…
Bertolt Brecht - Plays Vol 4 - Round Heads and Pointed Heads & Fear and Misery of the Third Reich
*** 50% Discount *** Volume 4 of Brecht’s Collected Plays contains works from the 1930s, straddling fateful years in German political and cultural history - as well as in Brecht’s own life…
Brecht On Film and Radio
This volume gathers together, for the first time in English translation, Brecht’s own writings on the new film and broadcast technologies that revolutionised arts and communication in the early part…
Bertolt Brecht - Collected Plays 8 - Antigone & Days of the Commune & Turandot or the Whitewasher’s Congress - HARDBACK
Volume Eight of Brecht’s collected plays contains his last completed plays, from the eight years between his return from America to Europe after the war, and his death in 1956 These three plays are…
Measures Taken and Lehrstucke
The Lehrstücke - or ‘learning-plays’- lie at the heart of Brechtian theatre Written during 1929 and 1930, years of far-reaching political and economic upheaveal in Germany and the period of…
Life of Galileo
Along with Mother Courage, the character of Galileo is one of Brecht’s greatest creations, immensely live, human and complex Unable to resist his appetite for scientific investigation, Galileo’s…
Brecht on Film and Radio
From Weimar Germany to Hollywood to East Berlin, Brecht on Film and Radio gathers together a selection of Bertolt Brecht’s own writings on the new film and broadcast media that revolutionised arts…
Bertolt Brecht - Collected Plays 7 - The Visions of Simone Machard & Schweyk in the Second World War & The Caucasian Chalk Circle & The Duchess of Malfi
The seventh volume of Brecht’s Collected Plays contains the plays which Brecht wrote during his six-year stay in the United States from 1942 to 1948 The Visions of Simone Machard is a French resistance…
Bertolt Brecht - Collected Plays 5 - Life of Galileo & Mother Courage and Her Children
The most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht’s plays in the English language The fifth volume in the Brecht Collected Plays series brings together two of Brecht’s best-known…
Bertolt Brecht - Collected Plays 6 - The Good Person of Szechwan & The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui & Mr Puntila and his Man Matti
This sixth volume of Brecht’s Collected Plays contains three plays he wrote while on the run in the early stages of the Second World War In Brecht’s famous parable The Good Person of Szechwan,…
Bertolt Brecht - Collected Plays Volume 1 - 1918-1923 - Baal & Drums in the Night & In the Jungle of Cities & The Life of Edward II of England & A Respectable Wedding & The Beggar or the Dead Dog & Driving Out a Devil & Lux in Tenebris & The Catch
This Paperback of Volume One of Brecht’s Collected Plays contains Brecht’s first performed stage works Baal, Drums in the Night, In the Jungle of Cities, The Life of Edward 11 of England and…
Brecht On Theatre - The Development of an Aesthetic
The most important translation of Brecht’s critical writing and one of the most influential theatre volumes of the 20th century. This selection of Bertolt Brecht’s critical writing charts the…
The Messingkauf Dialogues
Written between 1939 and 1942 these are the longest but in some ways the most light hearted of all Brecht’s discussions of theatre Here Actor, Actress, Dramaturg (or literary adviser) and Electrician…
Life of Galileo - STUDENT EDITION with Commentary & Notes
A single-volume Modern Play edition of one of Brecht’s greatest plays, in a stunning series cover Along with Mother Courage, the character of Galileo is one of Brecht’s greatest creations,…
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
In this savage and witty parable written in exile in 1941, Brecht recasts the rise of Hitler as a small-time Chicago gangster’s takeover of the city’s greengrocery trade This prizewinning translation…
Happy End
9 Male, 6 Female
This landmark musical by two of the greatest collaborators in musicals history was the 1929 forerunner of Guys and Dolls as well as the progenitor of Cabaret and Chicago. Set in Brechtian Chicago - it…
Brecht on Brecht
4 Male, 3 Female
Readings and enactments from the works of Brecht provide an unusual revue that earned critical acclaim Off Broadway. The first half showcases Brecht’s philosophical musings on such matters as book…
