October 25th | 16:00 – I.L. Caragiale National Theatre Bucharest, Media Hall
Brecht’s entire artistic activity was devoted to creating and refining the theater-laboratory method investigating inter-human relations, with the aim of understanding them as scientifically and thoroughly as possible, in order to be able to improve or change them completely. For Brecht, it is the uncertainties, contrasts and paradoxes in social relations that ‘entertain and educate’, provoking both aesthetic pleasure and the potential for change. According to the motto of his essay The Threepenny Trial: “Contradictions are our hope!”.
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By: Bertolt Brecht
Translated by: Lorin Ghiman
With: Adriana Butoi, Alice Monica Marinescu, Katia Pascariu
Directed by: David Schwartz
Produced by: TACT Publishing and Political Theatre Platform, in partnership with Goethe-Institute and National Theatre Festival, 2024
Duration: 1h 20 min
The performance is followed by a discussion with the audience, the team and a special guest.
Performative Reading in NTF 2024
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is one of the most influential theater people of the 20th century. Perhaps only the writings of Konstantin Sergeevich Stanislavski and Antonin Artaud have had a comparable impact. But Brecht’s influence is wider, going beyond the theatre, with his theories and method being studied, inspired and polemicized in fields ranging from cinema to political philosophy, feminist studies, advertising and game design.
Brecht’s entire artistic activity has been dedicated to creating and refining the method for a theater-laboratory for investigating inter-human relations, with the aim of understanding them as scientifically and in as much detail as possible, in order to be able to improve or change them completely. For Brecht, it is the uncertainties, contrasts and paradoxes in social relations that ‘entertain and educate’, that provoke both aesthetic pleasure and the potential for change. According to the motto of his essay The Threepenny Trial: “Contradictions are our hope!”.
Almost 70 years after the author’s death and almost 50 years since the only Romanian translation of a volume of Brechtian theory, TACT Publishing House and the Political Theater Platform, with the support of the Goethe-Institute and the National Theater Festival, invite the public to the launch of a new volume of theoretical writings, Dialectics and alienation. Writings about theater.
The launch will be accompanied by a performative reading with excerpts from the book and a discussion about today’s stakes of practicing a politically conscious theatre, with the participation of Mihaela Michailov, playwright and theatre critic.
