Brecht on Stage

Duration: 24

Year Published: 1989

Creator: INSIGHT MEDIA

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: Contemporaries and scholars of Bertolt Brecht discuss his work and its impact on modern theater. Describes Brecht's "epic" or "dialectic theater," in which the audience is alienated from the action of the play. Professor Hans Mayer discusses the staging of "Mother Courage," clips of which are shown throughout, and Brecht's work at the Berliner Ensemble.