How contemporary British political theater has evolved and expanded from the legacy of Bertolt Brecht

Karen Knorr photographed the building site of the disused Parisian Art-Deco Department store, La Samaritaine, in the summers of 2017 and 2018. In this new book,

Alienation (Vefremdung) is a concept inextricably linked with the name of twentieth-century German playwright Bertolt Brecht - with modernism, the avant-garde a

Explores Brecht's complex relationship with Greek tragedy and the tragic tradition, including significant archival material not seen before.

Examining the ways in which contemporary Western theatre protests against the ‘War on Terror’, this book analyses six twenty-first century plays that respon