1st Edition
The Piscatorbühne Century Politics and Aesthetics in the Modern Theater After 1927
Introduction; 1. The Founding and Principles of the Piscatorbühne; 2. Piscator in Context; 3. Piscatorbühne 1927–1928; 4. Brecht and Piscator: Dialectical Affinities; 5. The Piscator Lines of the Modern Theater
Biography
Drew Lichtenberg is a writer, teacher, and dramaturg who lives in Washington, DC. His work has appeared in theaters and publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He received his MFA and DFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from Yale School of Drama.
"well-researched and wide-ranging ... Lichtenberg's monograph [synthesizes] existing theatre-historical scholarship and more recent theatre theories to draw an unprecedentedly complete picture of Piscator's prominent role in twentieth-century theatre ... [and] the 1927-28 Piscatorbühne season with its mediatized productions as a precursor of postdramatic theatre.. This monograph ... examines how these productions influenced [Piscator's] own later documentary theatre, the plays of his contemporary Bertolt Brecht, and generations of subsequent theatre avant-gardists in the United States and Germany." Modern Drama, by Markus Wessendorf, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
