Fritz Bennewitz in India : Intercultural Theatre with Brecht and Shakespeare / Joerg Esleben.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Esleben, Jörg, Author.

Contributor:

John, David G.

Rolf, Rohmer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bennewitz, Fritz, 1926-1995--Correspondence.

Bennewitz, Fritz.

Mertes, Waltraut--Correspondence.

Mertes, Waltraut.

Bennewitz, Fritz, 1926-1995--Travel--India.

Bennewitz, Fritz, 1926-1995--Criticism and interpretation.

Theater--India--History--20th century.

Theater.

Theatrical producers and directors--Germany--Correspondence.

Theatrical producers and directors.

Theatrical producers and directors--India--Correspondence.

India--Description and travel.

India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (382 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis of the work of East German theatre director Fritz Bennewitz in India between 1970 and 1994. Joerg Esleben has gathered together many of Bennewitz's own writings, most published for the first time, in which he reflects on his production of plays by Bertolt Brecht, Shakespeare, Goethe, Chekhov, and Volker Braun. By translating these writings into English, the editors have provided unprecedented access to Bennewitz's thinking about intercultural work in India. This material is illuminated by explanatory annotations, contextualized commentary, and critical perspectives from Bennewitz's former colleagues in India and other leading scholars. Through its kaleidoscope of perspectives, Fritz Bennewitz in India offers a significant counter to dominant models of Western theatrical interculturalism."-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Editorial Notes; Introduction; Bennewitz's Status and the Genealogy of the Documentary Project; The Source Material and Its Selection and Translation; Bennewitz and Discourses on Intercultural Theatre; Aims and Purposes of the Book; Part I: Fritz Bennewitz on His Work in India; 1 The 1970s

Brechtian Experiments; Historical Junctures; New Delhi, 1970: Brecht, The Threepenny Opera; Mumbai, 1973: Brecht, The Caucasian Chalk Circle; An Indian Chalk Circle.

New Delhi, 1979: Brecht on Trial and Brecht's Mr. Puntila and his Man Matti2 The Early 1980s

Firsts, Lows, and Highs; Kolkata, 1980: Brecht, The Life of Galileo; New Delhi, 1981: Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream; Bangalore, 1982: Brecht, Mr. Puntila and his Man Matti; New Delhi, 1982: Brecht, The Caucasian Chalk Circle; 3 The Mid-1980s

Brecht and the Bard in Bhopal; Bhopal, 1983: Brecht, The Caucasian Chalk Circle; New Delhi, 1983: Shakespeare, Othello and Brecht, The Life of Galileo; New Delhi, 1984/5: Shakespeare, Hamlet and Sophocles/Brecht, Antigone.

Bhopal, 1985: Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's DreamBhopal, 1987: Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew; 4 The Late 1980s and Early 1990s

Gaining a Village, Losing a Country; Heggodu, 1989: Brecht, The Good Person of Sichuan; New Delhi, 1989/90: Volker Braun, Great Peace and Shakespeare, Twelfth Night; Heggodu, 1990: Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream; New Delhi, 1990: Shakespeare, The Tempest; Heggodu, 1991: Shakespeare, Twelfth Night; Mysore, 1991: Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard; Lucknow and Dhaka (Bangladesh), 1992/3; Mumbai, 1993/4; "Otherness within Togetherness"; Goethe, Faust I.

Part II: Perspectives on Fritz Bennewitz in India5 Perspectives from Bennewitz's Partners in India; Amal Allana; Samik Bandyopadhyay; Akshara, K.V.; Prasanna; Anuradha Kapur; 6 Essays on Bennewitz in India; Intersections: Fritz Bennewitz's Biography and His Intercultural Work; Bennewitz in India: Politics, Brecht, and the Human Touch; Conclusion; Chronology of Bennewitz's Stays and Projects in South Asia and of His Indian Projects in Germany; Glossary of Theatre Terms, Institutions, and Cultural References; Bibliography; Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-1090-X

1-4875-1089-6

OCLC:

965828332