When you study modern drama in school, a handful of names automatically populate the reading list: Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Pirandello, O’Neill, Beckett. And of course Bertolt Brecht. Few playwrights can claim as influential a legacy, let alone a name whose adjectival form is common theatrical parlance. Nevertheless, Brecht’s plays have not held the stage the […]

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