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.
Stephen Unwin
Stephen Unwin founded English Touring Theatre in 1993 and opened the Rose Theatre, Kingston in 2008. He has directed over 60 professional productions, including ten plays by Shakespeare and three by Brecht. His books include A Guide to the Plays of Bertolt Brecht, The Complete Brecht Toolkit, The Pocket Guide to Shakespeare's Plays and Poor Naked Wretches: Shakespeare's Working People.
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