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brecht: fragments performance, Raven Row, 2024; Bertolt Brecht, from The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui manuscript, 1941
[Anne Tetzlaff; Courtesy the Bertolt Brecht/Archive Akademie der Künste Berlin]
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Brecht — Fragments
Raven Row, London
IF you manage it right, there’s a treat in store at Raven Row, London E1.
Twice a day theatre performances accompany an exhibition of Bertolt Brecht’s archive in an hour-and-a-half of terrific theatre, as world-class actors lead you through the rooms for dramatic fragments of Brecht’s unfinished plays from 1920s Berlin.
As vividly costumed as anything from the Weimar Republic — and a broken fourth wall — these sketches are as relevant now as when Brecht wrote them. They cover class struggle, poverty, accumulative capitalism, religion and war, and crucially how they all relate to one another.
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