Author: Julian Bond

@ The Casa, Hope St, L’pool, 7pm, £3/£2 This week we will be looking at and performing extracts from The Good Person of Szechuan – you can read an online version here. We’ll be focusing on scenes 1 and 2: http://www.socialiststories.com/liberate/The%20Good%20Person%20of%20Szechuan.pdf All welcome beginner or experienced actor

7pm @ The Casa, Hope St, L’pool A series of workshops dedicated to looking at the theatre and influence of Bertolt Brecht’s ‘epic’ or ‘dialectical’ theatre. We continue this week to look at Brecht’s ‘alienated’ style of acting, focusing on the influence that Chinese theatre had on Brecht. All welcome beginner or experienced. Each workshop… Continue reading Burjesta Workshop – Brecht, Marx & Dialectics Wed 19th September

Burjesta Theatre Workshops –   There is no workshop next week, Wednesday 12th September. Workshops resume on Wednesday 19th September with our ongoing series, ‘Brecht, Marx and Dialectical Theatre’. Details for that workshop will be posted closer to the time.

@ The Casa, Hope St, L’pool A series of workshops looking at the theatre output and influence of Bertolt Brecht on modern theatre. This week we continue to look at Brecht’s ‘alienated’ style of acting with a devised piece of theatre incorporating his ideas. All welcome beginner or experienced – no prior knowledge of Brecht… Continue reading Burjesta Workshops – Brecht, Marx & Dialectical Theatre Wed 5th September

7pm @ The Casa, Hope St, L’pool We continue our series of workshops looking at the work and influence of Bertolt Brecht on modern theatre practice. This week we continue to look at the acting style that Brecht proposed known as the ‘alienation effect’ with exercises and devised work as well as looking at some… Continue reading Burjesta Workshop – Brecht, Marx & Dialectical Theatre, Wed 29th Aug

Burjesta Workshops – ‘Brecht, Marx & Dialectical Theatre’ Wed 22nd Aug, 7pm @ The Casa, Hope St, L’pool, £3/£2 Join us this Wednesday as we continue our exploration of Brecht’s influence on modern theatre. We’ll be trying out some of his advice and theories for actors as he attempted to create a new ‘epic’ or… Continue reading Workshop 22nd August – ‘Alienated’ Acting Style, Brecht

7pm, Wed 15th Aug @ The Casa, Hope St, L’pool, £3/£2 This Wednesday we continue with our look at Brecht’s theatre and influence on theatre. We’ll be looking at more of Brecht’s ‘alienated’ form of acting and aiming to apply his theories to our own practice. All are welcome from total beginner to experienced actor.… Continue reading Theatre Workshops – ‘Brecht, Marx & Dialectical Theatre’ : ‘Alienation’

7pm @ The Casa, Hope St, L’pool This week we continue to look at Brecht’s influence on modern theatre focusing on one of his ‘Lehrstucke’ ‘learning plays’, ‘He Said Yes / He Said No’ with two contradictory endings to what was originally a Japanese fable. These ‘learning plays’ were teaching instruments for actors to learn… Continue reading Burjesta Workshop – Brecht, Marx & Dialectical Theatre – Wed 8th Aug: ‘He Said Yes / No’

Burjesta Workshops Wed, 1 August,  7pm @ The Casa, Hope St, L’pool   This coming Wednesday we have the second in a series of workshops looking at Brecht’s theatre and influence with extracts from ‘Fear and Misery of the Third Reich’ and a look at Brecht’s theoretical differences between ‘Dramatic Theatre and ‘Epic or Dialectical Theatre’.… Continue reading Brecht, Marx & Dialectical Theatre Wed 1st August

Burjesta Theatre Workshops @ The Casa, Hope St, L’pool ‘Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it’. A new series of weekly workshops, each Wednesday from 7pm looking at the work, theories and influence of the most important modern theatre practitioner, Bertolt Brecht. Bertolt Brecht wrote… Continue reading New Series of Workshops – Brecht, Marx & Dialectical Theatre starts 25th July