Description: "Texts by Brecht originally published in Bertolt Brecht, Werke, Grosse kommentierte Berliner und Frenkfurter Ausgabe (vols. 22 and 25) Copyright ÷ Surkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1988-2000."
Brief description: Steve Giles is Professor Emeritus of German Studies and Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham, UK. He has contributed to Brecht on Art and Politics (Methuen Drama, 2003) as well as authoring books on Modern European Drama and Critical Theory.
Review Quotes:
"Brecht on Performance is a vital aid to English speakers in understanding Brecht as a theatre practitioner as well as what constitutes Brechtian performance. For the first time, a full edition of the unfinished Messingkauf - translated as Buying Brass - is available in English. [This book] will allow Anglophone scholars and performance practitioners to revisit Brecht's influence as a writer, theoretician, and theatre maker specifically, but also - more generally - the relationship between political thought and aesthetics, and between the theory and the practice of making art." --TDR: The Drama Review
"These two volumes represent an excellent extension of Brecht's writings in English. The editors draw on contemporary scholarship, apply high editorial standards, and offer a readability that opens up Brecht's theories and practices for a new generation." --David Barnett, New Theatre Quarterly