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When Residential College theater professor Kate Mendeloff was asked to stage a play aligned with the current semester's astronomy theme at the University of Michigan, it must have seemed to her as if ...

I always thought there was something half-baked in Bertolt Brecht’s formulation of the “alienation effect.” First, there is a discrepancy between what he aims for and the method he proposes to get ...

University of Manitoba drama professor Bill Kerr tells a story about the time he attended a play by Bertolt Brecht with two colleagues from the world of theatre. The actors declaimed their lines ...

Spass literally translates as ‘fun’. Brecht wanted to make his audience think. He realised that while we are laughing we are also thinking. So much so that the playwright Eugène Ionesco called him a ...