11/50 Bertolt Brecht

I paid something like $250 for all of this, and I've only read bits of the first and 2nd volumes. BB was a huge deal in the Theatre world. my first exposure to his name was listening to commentaries on arthouse cinema of the 60's films like Godard's Contempt and Antonioni's L'Avventura kept using the term Brechtian, which is a distancing technique, making you see the artificiality of the entertainment, making you think about things objectively instead of just being whisked away by the narrative like in Bond films and stuff like that. Oh and I had gotten before that a used battered copy of the Galileo play. His theatre theoretical material I passed on, but if my read through of what I have here goes well, I might have to get them!!

Collected Plays

Volume 1
Baal
Drums in the Night
In the Jungle of Cities
The Life of Edward II of England
A Respectable Wedding
The Beggar and the Dead Dog
Driving Out a Devil
Lux in Tenebris
The Catch

Volume 2
Man Equals Man
The Elephant Calf
The Threepenny Opera
The Rise and Fall of Mahagonny
The Seven Deadly Sins of the Petty Bourgeoisie

Volume 3
Lindbergh's Flight
The Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent
He Said Yes / He Said No
The Decision
The Mother
The Exception and the Rule
The Horatians and the Curiatians
St Joan of the Stockyards

Volume 4
Round Heads and Pointed Heads
Fear and Misery of the Third Reich
Senora Carrar's Rifles
Dansen
How Much is Your Iron?
The Trial of Lucullus

Volume 5
Life of Galileo
Mother Courage and Her Children

Volume 6
The Good Person of Szechwan
The Resistible Rise of Arturo UI
Mr Puntila and His Man Matti

Volume 7
The Visions of Simone Machard
Schweyk in the Second World War
The Caucasian Chalk Circle

Volume 8
The Antigone of Sophocles
The Days of the Commune
Turandot or The Whitewashers' Congress

The Collected Poems

and Stephen Parker's biography