Brecht on Theatre

PART ONE 1918-1932
1 Frank W,redekind 3
A Reckoning 4
Emphasis on Sport 6
4 Three Chcers for Shaw I0
5 Conversation with Bert Brecht 14
6 A Radio Speech 18
7 Shouldn't we Abolish Aesthetics? 20
8 The Epic Theatre and its Difficulties 22
q Last Stage: Oedipus 24
io A Dialogue about Acting 26
On Form and Subject-Matter 29
12 An Example of Paedagogics 31
1; The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre 33
14 The Literarization of the Theatre 43
15 The Film, the Novel and Epic Theatre 47
16 The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication
17 The Question of Criteria for Judging Acting 53
18 Indirect Impact of the Epic Theatre 57

PART TWO 1933-1947
19 Interview with an Exile 65
20 Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction 69
21 The German Drama: pre-Hitler 77
22 Criticism of the New York Production of Die Mutter 81
2; On the Use of Music in an Epic Theatre 84
24 Alienation Effects in Chinese Acting qI
2; Notes to Die Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe 100
26 On Gestic Music 104
27 The Popular and the Realistic 107


28 On Rhymeless Verse with Irregular Rhythms page i 15
29 The Street Scene 121
3o On Experimental Theatre 13o
31 New Technique of Acting i 36
32 Two Essays on Unprofessional Acting 148
33 Notes on the Folk Play 153
34 Alienation Effects in the Narrative Pictures of the Elder Brueghel 157
35 A Little Private Tuition for my Friend Max Gorelik 159
36 Building up a Part: Laughton's Galileo 163
37 `Der Messingkauf': an editorial note 169
PART THREE 1947-1948
38 A Short Organum for the Theatre 179
PART POUR 1948-1958
39 Masterful Treatment of a Model 209
4o From the Mother Courage Model 215
41 Does Use of the Model Restrict the Artist's Freedom? 222
42 Formai Problems Arising from the Theatre's New Content 226
43 Stage Design for the Epic Theatre 230
44 From a Letter to an Actor 233
45 Some of the Things that can be Learnt from Stanislavsky 236
46 Theaterarbeit: an editorial note 239
47 Notes on Erwin Strittmatter's Play Katzgraben 247
48 Study of the First Scene of Shakespeare's Coriolanus 252
49 Cultural Policy and Academy of Arts 266
so Conversation about being Forced into Empathy 270
51 Classical Status as an Inhibiting Factor 272
52 Can the Present-day World be Reproduced by Means of
Theatre? 274
53 Appendices to the `Short Organum' 276
54 `Dialectics in the Theatre': an editorial note 28!
55 Our London Season 283
Other English Translations 284
Index 286