Format:
1 Online-Ressource (253 p)
ISBN:
9781138658509
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One The Expressionist revolution in German theatre -- 1 Origins of the revolution -- Political and social background -- Philosophical background -- Scientific and technological background -- Theatrical background: administration -- Theatrical background: production styles -- 2 The theory of Expressionist theatre -- Philosophical viewpoint -- Abstractionism -- Primitivism
Content:
3 Abstractionist theatre: the distillation of reality -- Kaiser' s Kow morgens bis mitternachts {From Morning till Midnight) in performance (1917 onwards) -- The play and its presentation -- Acting for the abstractionist theatre -- Ecstatic acting style -- The abstractionist theatre o f Leopold Jessner -- 4 Primitivist theatre: the distortion of reality -- The premiere of Toller's Die Wandlung (Transfiguration) in 1919 -- The play and its presentation -- Acting for the primitivist theatre -- Abstractionist and primitivist theatre: an attempt at a synthesis
Content:
The Berlin premiere of Toller's Masse Mensch (Masses and Man) in 1921 -- Conclusion to Part One: The achievement of Expressionist theatre -- Part Two The political revolution in German theatre -- 5 Piscator's theatre: the documentation of reality -- Piscator's production of Toller' s Hoppla, wir leben! (.Hoppla, Such is Life!) in 1927 -- The political function of theatre -- The places of performance -- The financing of Piscator's theatre -- Forms of political theatre -- Texts of political theatre -- Technical innovations -- Acting style -- Involvement, alienation and epic theatre
Content:
Hoppla, wir leben !: Piscator's adaptation of the text -- Hoppla, wir leben !: set design and visual presentation -- Hoppla, wir leben !: presentation of individual scenes -- Piscator's achievement -- 6 Brecht's epic theatre: the challenge to reality -- Brecht's production of Mann ist Mann (Man equals Man) in 1931 -- Brecht and Expressionism -- Brecht and Piscator -- Mann ist Mann as an epic play -- Alienation and early Brecht productions -- Mann ist Mann: set design and visual presentation -- Mann ist Mann: music -- Mann ist Mann: acting for the epic theatre -- Conclusion -- Chronology 1900-33
Content:
Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
9781317217923
Additional Edition:
Print version Patterson, Michael The Revolution in German Theatre 1900-1933 (Routledge Revivals) : Taylor and Francis,c2016
Language:
English
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