Resisting the Irish Other: the Berliner Ensemble's Production of The Playboy of the Western World

David Julian Barnett

doi:10.1017/S0266464X17000069

Resisting the Irish Other: the Berliner Ensemble's Production of The Playboy of the Western World

David Julian Barnett

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Abstract

In this article David Barnett explores the Berliner Ensemble's production in 1956 of Synge's classic The Playboy of the Western World. Although it was directed by Peter Palitzsch and Manfred Wekwerth, Bertolt Brecht, the company's co-founder, loomed large in planning and rehearsal. This staging serves as an example of how a politicized approach to theatre-making can bring out relationships, material conditions, and power structures that the play's production history has often ignored. In addition, Barnett aims to show how Brechtian methods can be applied more generally to plays not written in the Brechtian tradition and the effects they can achieve.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	156-68
Journal	New Theatre Quarterly
Volume	33
Issue number	2
Early online date	12 Apr 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X17000069
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 12 Apr 2017

Keywords

Synge
Playboy of the Western World
Berliner Ensemble
Brecht
Brechtian

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