Titled “Antigone According to Bertolt Brecht and Two Stories,” the book also includes two stories by German authors Alfred Döblin and Rolf Hochhuth, all translated by Mahmoud Haddadi, Mehr reported.

How powerful is Sophocles’ story of war, betrayal and familial love that his “Antigone” is reborn time and again onstage? In both its original text and in highly successful adaptations by Bertolt ...

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The first is a French adaptation of the Greek tragedy written by Jean Anouilh, and the second is a German retelling by Bertolt Brecht. First performed in Nazi-occupied Paris, Anouilh placed Antigone ...

Bertolt Brecht has written 36 shows including Die Sieben Todsünden (Lyricist), Mother (Playwright), Galileo (Playwright), The Good Woman of Setzuan (Playwright), Brecht on Brecht (Lyricist), Man is ...

Brecht sought to strip romantic illusion from traditional theatre, much as Marx sought to strip romantic illusion from capitalist economics Bertolt Brecht, a rediscovered source of inspiration In the ...