Brecht on Performance Messingkauf and Modelbooks

<p><i>Brecht on Performance: Messingkauf and Modelbooks</i> presents a selection of Brecht's principal writings for directors and theatre practitioners, and is suitable for acting schools, directors, actors, students and teachers of Theatre Studies. Through these texts Brecht provides a general practical approach to acting and to realising texts for the stage that crystallises and makes concrete many of the more theoretical aspects of his other writing.</p><p>The volume is in two parts. The first features an entirely new commentated edition of Brecht's dialogues and essays about the practice of theatre, known as the <i>Messingkauf</i>, or <i>Buying Brass</i>, including the 'Practice Pieces' for actors (rehearsal scenes for classics by Shakespeare and Schiller). The second contains rehearsal and production records from Brecht's work on productions of<i> Life of Galileo</i>, <i>Antigone</i>, <i>Mother Courage</i> and others.</p><p>Edited by an international team of Brecht scholars and including an essay by director and teacher Di Trevis examining the practical application of these texts for theatres and actors today, <i>Brecht on Performance</i> is a wonderfully rich resource. The text is illustrated with over 30 photographs from the <i>Modelbooks</i>.</p>