The Complete Brecht Toolkit
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A practical, hands-on guide - for actors, directors, teachers and students - to Brecht's history and practice of theatre.
The Complete Brecht Toolkit examines, one by one, Brecht's many, sometimes contradictory ideas about theatre - and how he put them into practice. Here are explanations of all the famous key terms, such as Alienation Effect, Epic Theatre and Gestus, as well as many others which go to make up what we think of as 'Brechtian theatre'.
There follows a section which looks at the practical application of these theories in Acting, Language, Music, Design and Direction. And finally, the book offers fifty exercises for student actors to investigate Brecht's ideas for themselves, becoming thoroughly familiar with the tools in the Brecht toolkit.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 In Context
- Brecht: A Life in Theatre
- The Roots of Brecht's Theatre
- 2 In Theory
- Why Theory?
- The Alienation Effect
- Epic Theatre
- Gestus
- Contradiction and Complex Seeing
- Other Key Terms
- 3 In Practice
- Acting
- Language
- Music
- Design
- Directing
- Staging Brecht's Plays Today
- 4 The Brecht Challenge
- The Challenge
- One Director's Experience
- 5 Exercises
- Two Confessions
- The Ensemble
- Story and Narrative
- Argument and Clarity
- Social Relationships
- Gestus
- Alienation
- Moments of Decision
- Contradiction and Complex Seeing
- Company Round-up/Approaching the Play
- About the Author
- Copyright Information
