Buying brass : A method re-examined
(2021) Bertolt Brecht – Contradictions as Method In Arte Acta p.53-68- Abstract
- This article is an account of a lecture-performance presentation held in the context of “Contradictions as a Method,” an international Bertolt Brecht symposium that took place in November 2019 at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. As three speakers engaged with theatre in different ways, we were inspired by the dialogical structure of Brecht’s play Buying Brass and staged a similarly structured conversation. This conversation imitated and transposed the form in which thespians and the philosopher meet in Brecht’s original text. However, we decided not to perform characters from the play, but to speak from our own professional perspectives. Consequently, we focused on the current problems in theatre that we have met within our... (More)
- This article is an account of a lecture-performance presentation held in the context of “Contradictions as a Method,” an international Bertolt Brecht symposium that took place in November 2019 at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. As three speakers engaged with theatre in different ways, we were inspired by the dialogical structure of Brecht’s play Buying Brass and staged a similarly structured conversation. This conversation imitated and transposed the form in which thespians and the philosopher meet in Brecht’s original text. However, we decided not to perform characters from the play, but to speak from our own professional perspectives. Consequently, we focused on the current problems in theatre that we have met within our professional engagement, not specific problems mentioned in the original play. Yet, during the rehearsals, it came to light that there were many overlaps between the themes and characters of Brecht’s Buying Brass and the discussion of our live conversations. Therefore, we decided to use explicit references to some parts of the original Buying Brass play in our staged lecture-performance. (Less)
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- author
- Koubová, Alice ; Carlsson, Anders and Sjöström, Kent LU
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- publishing date
- 2021-03-25
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Bertolt Brecht, Buying Brass, Messingkauf, Theatre, Theatre institutions, Performance philosophy, Lecture performance, Acting, Bertolt Brecht, Buying Brass, Messingkauf, Theatre, Theatre institutions, Performance philosophy, Lecture performance, Acting
- in
- Arte Acta
- issue
- 4
- pages
- 15 pages
- conference name
- Bertolt Brecht – Contradictions as Method
- conference location
- Prague, Czech Republic
- conference dates
- 2019-11-08 - 2019-11-10
- ISSN
- 2571-1695
- language
- English
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- yes
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- c10acf76-6383-4e8a-97b4-92da9541654e
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title = {{Buying brass : A method re-examined}},
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