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4.0 out of 5 stars Brecht's Alienation, August 3, 2000
This review is from: Brecht: Mother Courage and her Children (Plays in Production) (Paperback)
The book is a good guide on tracing the evolution of the notion of alienation in theater. A different route from the naturalistic theater tradition, alienation aims at "extracting" emotions in theater and sticking with the message and aim of a play. Peter Thompson's work indirectly traces the idea of showing that acting is just plain "acting". He does this by reviewing the various experiences of staging Brecht's classic "Mother Courage and Her Children". For actors dreaming to just plainly "act" in theater (acting a character and not being a character), the good is a good guide. For those dreaming to be the mother in Mother Courage and The Mother, Shente in The Good Person of Setzuan, and St. Joan in St. Joan of the Stockyards--learn from this book.
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Brecht: Mother Courage and her Children (Plays in Production)
Brecht: Mother Courage and her Children (Plays in Production) by Peter Thomson (Paperback - January 13, 1998)
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