This thesis is based on the author?s experience of directing J. Ford, Th. Dekker, and W. Rowley?s play The Witch of Edmonton (1621) in Divadlo DISK in February 2012 as a final performance in his Directing Master Studies at the Theatre Faculty. What is at stake in reviving such a little-known play of the Jacobean era, and performing it in Czech Republic? Can a text written as a reaction to a precise event (a real witch trial) and built as a quasi-documentary depiction of the society of the time, within the aesthetic codes of the time, be relevant material for a lively performance today? This thesis argues that yes, and that The Witch of Edmonton can actually be the starting point of what can be ?political theatre? in a form not only belonging to a long tradition of committed entertainment (the play?s prologue promising us ?mirth and matter?), but especially relevant to today?s audiences and artistic stakes. The first part of the thesis is a detailed contextual analysis of the play, the historical period in which it was written, the conditions of performance of the time, the material it is based on and the way it was dramaturgically built as ?political?. The second part focuses on the author?s analytical attempts to extract the text from its historical context, in particular through comparative history and history of ideas and using the concepts of Brecht?s epic theatre, depicting also how this research served as a preparation for the concept of his performance, a concept that is then explicated in detail. The third and last part is a short account and reflection about the rehearsal process and its outcome from the director?s point of view, making a final statement on the achieved practical work.

This essay describes the process of investigating and concluding to a design for Berthold Brecht?s The Threepenny Opera. Through theoretical references and actual observations of todays society, the different worlds that consist the play are described and analyzed, as well as the main characters and their surrounding groups. In the end, the final design is presented together with proposals for the costumes of the main characters. The basic dramatic situations are presented in their final form with photos of the model, depicting the changes of the stage.

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Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Artes, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arte, 2016. / Submitted by Fernanda Percia França (fernandafranca@bce.unb.br) on 2016-12-06T14:33:27Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_DimasCaltagironiGonçalvesDantas.pdf: 3612058 bytes, checksum: 85d2bf679d254cfd343a31d46254401b (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Raquel Viana(raquelviana@bce.unb.br) on 2017-01-25T18:36:09Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_DimasCaltagironiGonçalvesDantas.pdf: 3612058 bytes, checksum: 85d2bf679d254cfd343a31d46254401b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-01-25T18:36:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_DimasCaltagironiGonçalvesDantas.pdf: 3612058 bytes, checksum: 85d2bf679d254cfd343a31d46254401b (MD5) / O presente estudo, após uma breve descrição sobre democracia diante as colaborações teóricas de Giovani Sartori (1994), Robert Dahl (1997) e Joseph Schumpeter (1984), teve por norte analisar, sob o enfoque de Marilena Chauí (2001), a relevância da cidadania para o contexto participativo do aluno na Gestão Democrática Escolar. Neste sentido, fundamenta a dialogicidade como categoria analítica e, através das colaborações teóricas de Mikhail Bakhtin, Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht, Augusto Boal e Paulo Freire, colabora com a proposição de um instrumento de participação do aluno para o Centro de Ensino Médio 417 de Santa Maria, Distrito Federal. Por meio de exercícios de experimentação e oficina com a peça didática “A Exceção e a Regra”, de Bertolt Brecht, propõe a integração entre pesquisa-ação e modelo de ação, apresentando uma proposta metodológica estético-social, aqui denominada prática-ação. / This dissertation, after a brief description of democracy on the theoretical contributions of Giovani Sartori (1994), Robert Dahl (1997) and Joseph Schumpeter (1984) analyzes , from the standpoint of Marilena Chauí (2001), the relevance of citizenship for participatory context student in the school democratic management . In this sense, based dialogicity as an analytical category, and through the theoretical contributions of Mikhail Bakhtin, Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht, Augusto Boal and Paulo Freire, collaborates with the proposition of a student participation instrument for Teaching Center East 417 Santa Maria, Distrito Federal. Through experimentation and workshop exercises with the learning play "The exception and the rule" of Bertolt Brecht, proposes the integration between action research and action model, presenting an aesthetic and social methodological proposal, here called practical action.

Na pesquisa desenvolvemos um percurso por Bertolt Brecht na especificidade do seu exílio. Objetivamos traçar relações entre sua posição de exilado e as camadas do pensamento brechtiano verificado por Fredric Jameson (2013), no livro Brecht e a questão de método. A constituição do exílio de Brecht é entendida como um deslocamento, dentro do estado de exceção, de uma situação de exílio para uma posição de exílio (DIDI-HUBERMAN, 2008) que, entre diferentes características, evidencia a própria exceção (AGAMBEN, 2004). Ao final do percurso, trabalhamos, a partir de autores da psicanálise e do pensamento utópico, com a hipótese de que Brecht fez de sua situação de exílio um sintoma. / In this research, a path was developed for Bertolt Brecht specifics of his exile. The main focus was to draw relations between his position as an exiled person and the layers of brechtian thoughts verified by Fredric Jameson (2013), in the book Brecht method. The nature of Brecht's exile is understood as a displacement, within a state of exception, of an exile situation to a position of exile (DIDI-HUBERMAN, 2008) in which, among different characteristics, Brecht puts in evidence himself his own exception (AGAMBEN, 2004). At the end, psychoanalyst authors and utopian thinkers were used, bearing in mind the hypothesis that Brecht made a symptom out of his exile situation. / En la pesquisa desarrollamos un recorrido por Bertolt Brecht en la especialidad del su exilio. Objetivamente trazar relaciones entre su posición de exilado y las capas del pensamiento brechtiano verificado por Fredric Jameson (2013), en el libro Brecht y el Método. La constitución del exilio de Brecht es entendida como un desplazamiento, dentro del estado de excepción, de una situación del exilio para una posición de exilio (DIDI-HUBERMAN, 2008) que, entre distintas características, evidencia la propia excepción (AGAMBEN, 2004). Al fin del recurrido producimos, a partir de autores de la psicoanálisis y del pensamiento utópico, con la hipótesis de que Brecht hizo de su situación de exilio un síntoma.

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Artes, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arte, 2010. / Submitted by Allan Wanick Motta (allan_wanick@hotmail.com) on 2011-01-20T16:36:08Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_FranciscoPereiraNunes.pdf: 2490735 bytes, checksum: a26621da05b643088babe740ea9b1936 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Gomes Neide(nagomes2005@gmail.com) on 2011-01-20T18:25:52Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_FranciscoPereiraNunes.pdf: 2490735 bytes, checksum: a26621da05b643088babe740ea9b1936 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2011-01-20T18:25:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_FranciscoPereiraNunes.pdf: 2490735 bytes, checksum: a26621da05b643088babe740ea9b1936 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / O trabalho proposto nesta dissertação tem como objetivo abordar algumas funções pertinentes ao teatro: a política, a terapêutica, a social e a pedagógica. Para isso, o estudo analisa três teóricos que nas suas práticas, enfatizaram essas funções, o dramaturgo alemão Bertolt Brecht, o médico romeno Jacob Levi Moreno e o diretor teatral brasileiro Augusto Boal. As modificações que esses autores trouxeram com suas teorias e práticas, bem como, as relações criadas com a plateia. Um público sentado e incomodado com o teor político do texto no teatro de Brecht; mas que sobe ao palco, sai de seus assentos e acaba assumindo outros papéis nos teatros de Moreno e Boal. O trabalho também é uma reflexão sobre os papéis que o autor vem exercendo de professor e de diretor teatral com jovens e adultos da periferia de Brasília: Varjão, Taguatinga e Ceilândia, adicionado a isso, eu procuro estabelecer relações entre a minha prática e os teóricos citados. _______________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT / This paper aims to talk about some functions related to the theatre: the politic, therapeutic, social and pedagogical ones. Thus, this project analyzes three theorists that emphasize these functions in their practice: the German playwright Bertolt Brecht, the Romanian doctor Jacob Levi Moreno and the Brazilian theatrical director Augusto Boal. The modifications what these authors brought with their theories and practices, as wall as, the relations grow up with the audience. A public sitting and bothered by the political drift of the text in the theater of Brecht, but that rises to the stage, leaves from their seats and finishes taking over other papers in the theaters of Moreno and Boal. This project is also a reflection related to the functions that the author has been working as a teacher and a theatrical director with young persons and adults of the periphery of Brasília: Varjão, Taguatinga and Ceilândia, in addition to this fact; I intend to make links between my practice and the theorists studied.

Na pesquisa desenvolvemos um percurso por Bertolt Brecht na especificidade do seu exílio. Objetivamos traçar relações entre sua posição de exilado e as camadas do pensamento brechtiano verificado por Fredric Jameson (2013), no livro Brecht e a questão de método. A constituição do exílio de Brecht é entendida como um deslocamento, dentro do estado de exceção, de uma situação de exílio para uma posição de exílio (DIDI-HUBERMAN, 2008) que, entre diferentes características, evidencia a própria exceção (AGAMBEN, 2004). Ao final do percurso, trabalhamos, a partir de autores da psicanálise e do pensamento utópico, com a hipótese de que Brecht fez de sua situação de exílio um sintoma. / In this research, a path was developed for Bertolt Brecht specifics of his exile. The main focus was to draw relations between his position as an exiled person and the layers of brechtian thoughts verified by Fredric Jameson (2013), in the book Brecht method. The nature of Brecht's exile is understood as a displacement, within a state of exception, of an exile situation to a position of exile (DIDI-HUBERMAN, 2008) in which, among different characteristics, Brecht puts in evidence himself his own exception (AGAMBEN, 2004). At the end, psychoanalyst authors and utopian thinkers were used, bearing in mind the hypothesis that Brecht made a symptom out of his exile situation. / En la pesquisa desarrollamos un recorrido por Bertolt Brecht en la especialidad del su exilio. Objetivamente trazar relaciones entre su posición de exilado y las capas del pensamiento brechtiano verificado por Fredric Jameson (2013), en el libro Brecht y el Método. La constitución del exilio de Brecht es entendida como un desplazamiento, dentro del estado de excepción, de una situación del exilio para una posición de exilio (DIDI-HUBERMAN, 2008) que, entre distintas características, evidencia la propia excepción (AGAMBEN, 2004). Al fin del recurrido producimos, a partir de autores de la psicoanálisis y del pensamiento utópico, con la hipótesis de que Brecht hizo de su situación de exilio un síntoma.

Orientador: Fabio Akcelrud Durão / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-19T03:06:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Oliveira_GislaineCristinade_M.pdf: 1237032 bytes, checksum: e0439915fc28f1aea1eadc16a98391e2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: Este trabalho consiste em uma leitura do livro O método Brecht de Fredric Jameson. Um dos mais importantes teóricos do pós-modernismo, Jameson, discute nesse livro a validade de Brecht para os dias de hoje e demonstra como as ideias, narrativas e linguagem brechtianas constituem um método que também se confunde com certa atitude dialética. Devido à complexidade da exposição de Jameson, foram eleitos alguns fios condutores para organizar as discussões. Os objetivos do trabalho são, portanto, explorar os argumentos do crítico, desemaranhá-los e tentar explicitar seu funcionamento, em especial no contexto brasileiro. Para esse propósito, procedeu-se uma leitura detalhada das proposições de Jameson e foram levadas em conta outras contribuições de estudiosos a respeito dos mesmos temas. Os resultados foram três textos que constituem os capítulos desse trabalho: uma reflexão sobre o histórico de Brecht no Brasil confrontada aos pressupostos e conhecimentos necessários à leitura de O método Brecht, uma paráfrase das ideias e hipóteses principais do livro juntamente com a discussão sobre a centralidade do ator no trabalho brechtiano e, por fim, o comentário sobre a própria escrita de Jameson / Abstract: This work consists of a reading of Fredric Jameson's book, Brecht and Method. One of the most important theorists of postmodernism, Jameson discusses in this book the validity of Brecht to the present day; he shows how ideas, narratives and language make up a brechtian method that also merges with what could be called a dialectical attitude. Due to the complexity of Jameson?s exposition, some theoretical threads were choosen to organize the discussion. The objectives of this study are therefore exploring the critic?s arguments, unraveling them and trying to explain the way they operate, particularly in the Brazilian context. For this purpose, a detailed reading of Jameson?s propositions was carried out and contributions from other scholars about the same topics were taken into account. From that the three chapters this thesis result: a confrontation between the reflection on Brecht's history in Brazil and an explanation of the knowledge required to read Brecht and Method, a paraphrase of the book's main ideas and hypothesis along with the discussion of the centrality of the actor in Brechtian work and, finally, a commentary on Jameson's writing / Mestrado / Teoria e Critica Literaria / Mestre em Teoria e História Literária

El teatro posee una dimensión política que no está confinada a ciertos períodos de tiempo; pero, por supuesto, el modo en que el teatro se relaciona con la política va cambiando. El teatro del que nosotros nos ocupamos en el particular arco temporal de las décadas del sesenta y el setenta ha sido definido como “teatro militante”, en cuanto quienes participaron asignaron a esta actividad una funcionalidad diferente a la que reconocía para sí el teatro tradicional. Desarrollaron experiencias colectivas de intervención política, poniendo su trabajo al servicio de las luchas sociales. Fundamentalmente, no solo daban testimonio o denunciaban las injusticias, sino que procuraban formar parte de un proceso de transformación social a partir de la experiencia teatral, poniendo la actividad artística al servicio de lo sociopolítico. El artista ejercía su actividad en ámbitos cada vez más amplios, se expandía hasta llegar a ocupar todos los aspectos de su vida (cfr. Verzero, Lorena, 2013: 127 y 128). La enorme carga didáctica que contenían aquellos trabajos artísticos, donde lo estético estaba subordinado totalmente a transmitir una enseñanza, llevó a los propios teatreros a comprender que el teatro no era político por su contenido, sino que debía ser “realizado de un modo político”. Esto es esencial; constituye una forma de hacer teatro que más adelante fue apropiada por otros artistas, como Kartun o Los Calandracas junto a Ricardo Talento, pues han logrado desarrollar un teatro cuya primera función no es transmitir una enseñanza, sino producir significado en el momento que acontece. Para llegar a estos resultados, hemos historizado sistemáticamente la producción teatral de Bertolt Brecht, Augusto Boal, Mauricio Kartun, y del grupo Los Calandracas, insertando sus obras en el contexto político y social en el que surgieron. Hemos reconocido las líneas de conexión y de ruptura entre los núcleos temáticos e ideológicos de las distintas obras, analizando las figuraciones de intelectual comprometido que se proyectan en las piezas. Hemos identificado el conjunto de valores y de creencias sobre los que se organizan y hemos caracterizado el imaginario social que lo sustenta. Finalmente, evaluamos la repercusión que tuvieron sus producciones en el campo teatral y en el campo social del país. La elección del tema también se fundamentó en la incumbencia que podrán tener los resultados en diversos campos del saber, como el Teatro Comparado, la Cartografía Teatral, la Sociología de la Cultura, la Historiografía, la Historia de las Ideas y la Filosofía del Teatro. / The theater has a political dimension that is not limited to certain periods; but, of course, the way in which theater relates to politics changes over time. The theater we deal with, which is the period from the ‘60s and ‘70s, has been defined as “activist theater” as this activity was assigned a different role from the one the traditional theater considered its own. They developed collective political intervention experiences, putting their work at the service of social struggles. Mainly, they did not only give testimony or report injustices, but they also ensured to be part of a social change process from the theatrical experience, putting the artistic activity at the service of sociopolitical purposes, up to the point of becoming an artist’s behavior that would permeate to all the aspects of his life (cf. Verzero, Lorena, 2013: 127y 128). The enormous didactic load carried by those artistic performances, where the aesthetic was totally subordinated to the delivery of some lesson, made theater-workers understand that the theater is not political due to its content, but rather that it has to be “performed in a political way”. This is a fundamental goal that was later achieved by both Kartun and Los Calandracas together with Ricardo Talento, as they have been able to develop a theater that does not deliver a lesson but produces meaning as it develops. To get to these results, we have systematically historicized the drama production by Bertolt Brecht, Augusto Boal, Mauricio Kartun, and Los calandracas group, inserting their works within the political and social context where they were created. We have recognized the connection and rupture lines among the thematic and ideological cores of the different plays, analyzing the images of committed intellectual cast in the plays. We have identified the set of values and beliefs about those who get organized and characterized the social collective imagination that supports them. Finally, we assess the impact of their productions in the theater and social field of the country. The topic selection was also based on the relevance that the results might have in the different fields of knowledge, such as Comparative Drama, Theater Cartography, Culture Sociology, Historiography, History of Ideas and Theatrical Philosophy.

This study analyses five British translations of Bertolt Brecht's 'Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder'. Two of these translations were written by speakers of German, and three by well-known British playwrights with no knowledge of the source text language. Four have been produced in mainstream British theatres in the past twenty-five years. The study applies translation studies methodology to a textual analysis which focuses on the translation of techniques of linguistic "Verfremdung", as well as linguistic expression of the comedy and of the political dimension in the work. It thus closes the gap in current Brecht research in examining the importance of his idiosyncratic use of language to the translation and reception of his work in the UK. The study assesses the ways in which the translator and director are influenced by Brecht's legacy in the UK and in turn, what image of Brecht they mediate through the production on stage. To this end, the study throws light on the formation of Brecht's problematic reputation in the UK, and it also highlights the social and political circumstances in early twentieth century Germany which prompted Brecht to develop his theory of an epic theatre. The focus on a linguistic examination allows the translator's contribution to the production process to be isolated. Together with an investigation of the reception of each performance text, this in turn facilitates a more accurate assessment of the translator and director's respective influence in the process of transforming a foreign-language text onto a local stage. The analysis also sheds light on the different approaches taken by speakers of German, and playwrights creating an English version from a literal translation. It pinpoints losses in translation and adaptation, and suggests how future versions may avoid these.