Posters of the Berliner Ensemble Interviews Songs Plays Poems Films how can we construct epic theatre for the information age? with my mother i saw the mother courage. i studied brecht on the streets of the three penny city. as a youth i saw brecht performed sadly at the berlin ensemble, but with cheap east german cigarettes and cocktails that mattered little. with expensive west german promotion brecht was commodified for his anniversary in east germany vietnamese cigarette dealers were arrested by the police alexanderplatz is being filled with shops for the new consumer and marx and engels are snapped up by tourists in front of the planned new palace we need an new epic theatre we can constuct it how? |