Practitioners
Brecht, Bertolt
Practitioner
Bertolt Brecht reformed various aspects of 20th-century theatre. He created an acting process, theories of dramaturgy and performance, a performance style, and wrote hundreds of plays and poems.
William Gaskill interviewed by Michael Billington. Gaskill discusses his theatre-going during the war, his experiences at Oxford University, and his work with the Royal Court and National Theatre.
Although best known as a playwright, Brecht was a highly original poet. His poems tell us much about his plays, not least his advocacy of survival in a context of resistance to oppression.
