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When Residential College theater professor Kate Mendeloff was asked to stage a play aligned with the current semester's astronomy theme at the University of Michigan, it must have seemed to her as if ...

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 ...

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 ...