Acting with Style, Volume 10From preface: This book is aimed at helping the actor discover what kind of play he is in--to identify the stylistic clues--and then come to a physical awareness of how it should be played. |
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... Bertolt Brecht . With the soul of a nine- teenth - century romantic poet and a mind conscious of the mechanistic materialism of the twentieth century , Brecht was to form a permanent dialectic of his life . From the first he was aware ...
... Bertolt Brecht . With the soul of a nine- teenth - century romantic poet and a mind conscious of the mechanistic materialism of the twentieth century , Brecht was to form a permanent dialectic of his life . From the first he was aware ...
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... Brecht didn't operate on any kind of realistic prem- ise in his use of space , he took extreme care that costumes and properties create the cor- 7 Bertolt Brecht , Parables for the Theatre , trans . Eric Bentley ( Harmondsworth ...
... Brecht didn't operate on any kind of realistic prem- ise in his use of space , he took extreme care that costumes and properties create the cor- 7 Bertolt Brecht , Parables for the Theatre , trans . Eric Bentley ( Harmondsworth ...
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John Harrop, Sabin R. Epstein. SUGGESTED READINGS BRECHT , BERTOLT , Antigonemodell 1948. Berlin : Henschelverlag Kunst und Gesellschaft , 1955 . The Messingkauf Dialogues , trans . John Willett . London : Methuen , 1972 . EAGLETON ...
John Harrop, Sabin R. Epstein. SUGGESTED READINGS BRECHT , BERTOLT , Antigonemodell 1948. Berlin : Henschelverlag Kunst und Gesellschaft , 1955 . The Messingkauf Dialogues , trans . John Willett . London : Methuen , 1972 . EAGLETON ...
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