Bertolt Brecht
The Good Person of Szechwan review – Brecht’s parable gets a bold revamp
Anthony Lau brings rich cultural authenticity to the stinging China-set capitalist critique – as well as slides and giant frogs
Nick Ahad
17, Mar, 2023 @10:02 AM
The Decision review – didactic, two-dimensional and dramatically obvious
Bertolt Brecht’s tale of four agitators dispatched from Soviet Russia to foment revolution in pre-communist China is almost a parody of previous Birmingham Opera Company productions
Andrew Clements
06, Mar, 2023 @7:00 AM
Jean-Marie Straub obituary
French film-maker who challenged the primacy of narration and orthodox notions of realism
Ronald Bergan
21, Nov, 2022 @1:20 PM
The Caucasian Chalk Circle review – Carrie Hope Fletcher shines light in Brecht’s epic
A striking score and expressive singing carry Christopher Haydon’s production of the wartime classic
Miriam Gillinson
07, Oct, 2022 @7:00 PM
Another brick in the wall for bees | Brief letters
Brief letters: The buzz about soft clay | Reviving Arturo Ui | Sober evaluation | Chanelling Frida Kahlo
23, Jan, 2022 @5:00 PM
The tragedy of our current political farce | Letter
Letter: Is the time not ripe for a new production of Brecht’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, asks Dr Jonathan Punt
Letters
21, Jan, 2022 @5:46 PM
Writing the wrongs of the climate crisis | Letters
Letters: Meirion Bowen applauds Ben Okri’s stand, while Trevor Jones supports the wake-up call that less is more
Letters
15, Nov, 2021 @4:47 PM
The Seven Deadly Sins review – Hollywood highs and Depression lows with uncanny resonances
The expressive force of singer Wallis Giunta and dancer Shelley Eva Haden evoked today’s US in a spirited production of Brecht and Weill’s sung ballet
Rian Evans
23, Nov, 2020 @12:46 PM
Eric Bentley obituary
Writer on drama and champion of Brecht who shared Shaw’s view that theatre should add to people’s lives
Irving Wardle
17, Sep, 2020 @4:38 PM
Mrs Puntila and Her Man Matti review – socialist satire starved of humour
The comic talents of Elaine C Smith and Steven McNicoll can’t save Denise Mina’s stilted, gender-switching adaptation of a Bertolt Brecht comedy
Clare Brennan
15, Mar, 2020 @5:30 AM
Hail, Coriolanus! The greatness of Shakespeare's shape-shifting epic
From Olivier’s strangled fury to Ralph Fiennes’ Oedipal embraces, this complex political play is extraordinarily flexible
Michael Billington
05, Mar, 2020 @6:00 AM
Mrs Puntila and Her Man Matti review – Denise Mina's Scottish Brecht falls flat
This update starring Elaine C Smith focuses on modern-day Scotland’s landowning class but struggles to make the satire funny
Mark Fisher
04, Mar, 2020 @11:24 AM
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