BERTOLT BRECHT
A 1924 production of
In the Jungle of Cities.
The Mahagonny Songspiel performed in Baden Baden,
1927. Brecht is at the right. 
The Threepenny Opera, 1928, with curtain and
projected narration.
Left: The Threepenny Opera, 1928. Right:
The Baden Baden Lehrstuck, 1929.
Above: Brecht's 1931 Berlin revival of Mann
ist Mann, featuring Peter Lorre.
Left to right: Lorre in Mann ist Mann; Laughton in
Galileo;Weigel in Mutter Courage.
A production of
Mother Courage and her Children.
Set pieces and costumes from the Berliner Ensemble
production of Mother Courage.
The modern theatre
mustn't be judged by its success in satisfying the audiences habits, but
by its success in transforming them. It needs to be questioned not about
its degree of conformity with the "eternal laws of the theatre," but about
its ability to master the rules governing the great social processes of
our age; not about whether it manages to interest the spectator in buying
a ticket - i.e. in the theatre itself - but about whether it manages to
interest him in the world.
Bertolt Brecht
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