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Actinghouse Productions is to present On the Seduction of Angels, an evening of Bertolt Brecht scenes, poems and songs, accompanied by the music of Kurt Weill. It will be presented between Friday and ...

In the green duffle bag I carried there was a two-volume set of the Oxford English dictionary, a pair of jeans, two t-shirts, a few pens, a Palestinian kaffiyeh, a notebook and Bertolt Brecht. When I ...

Bertolt Brecht’s poetry captured a world torn apart by war and depression. Bertolt Brecht in 1937. (AP / Fred Stein) Although far better known internationally as a playwright than as a poet, Bertolt ...

In international literary and theatrical circles, not merely in German ones, the weight of the Brecht surname is considerable. As the son of the playwright Bertolt Brecht and the actress Helene Weigel ...

Born in Bavaria in 1898, playwright Bertolt Brecht worked principally in what is known as epic theatre, which favours provocative narratives interspersed by debate and analysis. This new dramatic form ...