Post-Imperial Brecht : Politics and Performance, East and South (Paperback)

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The political history of theatre and theory: Brecht and his contemporaries; 2. Realism, socialism and modernism in the production play; 3. Broadcasting (a)socialism: Brecht, Muller and Radio Fatzer; 4. Spectres and speculation: Brechtian futures on the global market; 5. The dis-illusion of apartheid: Brecht and South Africa; 6. 'Realistic Engagement' and the limits of solidarity: Athol Fugard in (East) Germany; 7. Truth, reconciliation and the ends of political performance; Coda; Index.