A practical hands-on guide
- for actors directors teachers & students
- to Brecht's history & practice of theatre The Complete Brecht Toolkit examines one by one Brecht's many sometimes contradictory ideas about theatre
- & how he put them into practice Here are explanations of all the famous key terms such as Alienation Effect Epic Theatre & Gestus as well as many others which go to make up what we think of as ' Brechtian theatre' There follows a section which looks at the practical application of these theories in Acting Language Music Design & Direction & finally the book offers fifty exercises for student actors to investigate Brecht's ideas for themselves becoming thoroughly familiar with the tools in the Brecht toolkit