For a play written in 1939, Mother Courage and Her Children still feels upsettingly relevant. Bertolt Brecht’s condemnation ...

University of Manitoba drama professor Bill Kerr tells a story about the time he attended a play by Bertolt Brecht with two colleagues from the world of theatre. The actors declaimed their lines ...

I always thought there was something half-baked in Bertolt Brecht’s formulation of the “alienation effect.” First, there is a discrepancy between what he aims for and the method he proposes to get ...