Bøker av Joel Schechter

Eighteenth-Century Brechtians is a collection of essays by a well-known author on comic and radical political theatre. It looks at stage satires by John Gay, Henry Fielding, George Farquhar, Charlotte Charke, David Garrick and their contemporaries through the lens of Brecht's theory and practice. 15 b&w illustrations.

Examines the stage performances created by the Artef collective, the Modicut puppeteers, and the Yiddish Unit of the Federal Theatre Project. This title introduces to contemporary readers some of the popular theatre actors of the 30s, including Leo Fuchs, Menasha Skulnik, and Yetta Zwerling.