• The Mother (German: Die Mutter) is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. It is based on Maxim Gorky's 1906 novel of the same name...
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    Mother Courage and Her Children (German: Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder) is a play written in 1939 by the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956)...
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    Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright...
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  • The Mother may refer to: Mother (Gorky novel), 1906 novel by Maxim Gorky The Mother (Brecht play), a play by Bertolt Brecht based on Gorky's novel, first...
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    Vlassova, The Mother of 1932; Antigone in Brecht's version of the Greek tragedy; the title role in his civil war play, Señora Carrar's Rifles; and the iconic...
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  • The Caucasian Chalk Circle (German: Der kaukasische Kreidekreis) is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. An example of Brecht's epic...
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    following years, in 1932 the novel was dramatized into a play by German playwright Bertolt Brecht in Die Mutter. In the later years, the novel was adapted in...
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  • relations. The play is composed of 11 scenes in prose and blank verse and 13 songs. Unlike another of Brecht's plays from this period, The Mother, Round Heads...
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  • The Bertolt Brecht play Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (Mother Courage and Her Children) gave her currency in the 20th century. Mother Courage is cast...
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    against the author Bertolt Brecht, his work was boycotted for ten years. Between 1953 and 1963, no established Viennese theater performed his works. The initiators...
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  • Man Equals Man (category Plays by Bertolt Brecht)
    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...
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    Epic theatre (category Bertolt Brecht theories and techniques)
    event. This can be seen in the plays Mother Courage and Her Children and The Good Person of Szechwan, both written by Brecht, which comment on a current...
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  • Baal (EP) (category Adaptations of works by Bertolt Brecht)
    Baal is an EP by the English musician David Bowie, comprising recordings of songs written for Bertolt Brecht’s play Baal. It is sometimes referred to as...
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  • (1937) The White Disease (1937) - Karel Čapek The Mother (1938) - Karel Čapek Mother Courage and Her Children (1939) - Bertolt Brecht Schweik in the Second...
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  • movement there. In 1974, the postmodern East German dramatist Heiner Müller wrote an 'answer' to Brecht's play, titled The Battle: Scenes from Germany...
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  • York to play bass flute for the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and the NBC Symphony Orchestra. After his father's death from alcoholism when Brecht was 10...
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  • Respectable Wedding is a short play by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht. The German title Die Kleinbürgerhochzeit literally means the petit bourgeois wedding...
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    Distancing effect (category Bertolt Brecht theories and techniques)
    concept in performing arts credited to German playwright Bertolt Brecht. Brecht first used the term in his essay "Alienation Effects in Chinese Acting" published...
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    Max Schreck (category Actors from the Province of Brandenburg)
    expressionist production of Bertolt Brecht's début, Trommeln in der Nacht (Drums in the Night) in which he played the "freakshow landlord" Glubb. During...
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    Otto Klemperer. The play was enlarged as Der Flug der Lindbergh in 1930, but the new portion was not set to music. In December 1949, Brecht removed Lindbergh's...
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    Therese Giehse (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    first Mother Courage in the world premiere of Bertolt Brecht's play Mother Courage and Her Children, in 1941 at the Schauspielhaus Zürich. After the war...
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  • In the Jungle of Cities (German: Im Dickicht der Städte) is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. Written between 1921 and 1924, it...
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    Frank Wedekind (redirect from Lulu plays)
    Brecht: Plays, Poetry, Prose Ser. London: Methuen, 1985. ISBN 0-413-38890-5. Mueller, Carl R. 2000. Introduction to Frank Wedekind: Four Major Plays,...
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    Antigone (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Sophocles's play by Jean Anouilh (1910–1987) performed during the Nazi occupation of Paris "Antigone-Legend", for soprano and piano (text by Bertolt Brecht), by...
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    revived by the Nottingham New Theatre at the University of Nottingham, 59 years after the first revival. The play was adapted by Bertolt Brecht and Lion...
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  • Señora Carrar's Rifles (category Plays by Bertolt Brecht)
    one-act play by the twentieth-century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, written in collaboration with Margarete Steffin. It is a modern version of the Irish...
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    Coriolanus (redirect from Coriolanus (play))
    Bertolt Brecht adapted Shakespeare's play in 1952–55, as Coriolan for the Berliner Ensemble. He intended to make it a tragedy of the workers, not the individual...
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  • Cocteau's play, based on Sophocles Antigone (Garnier play), a 1580 play by Robert Garnier Antigone (Brecht play), a 1948 play by Bertolt Brecht Antigonae...
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    Brecht, Elisabeth Hauptmann and Kurt Weill's musical play. Playing a circuit that included Brighton's Zap Club and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, The...
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  • 14th-century play by Li Xingdao, and can be seen as a "first draft" for Brecht's subsequent play, The Caucasian Chalk Circle. The story is set during the Thirty...
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