A German playwright, poet, and director. He aimed for a theater of the "alienation effect," which forces the audience to think by keeping them at a distance from the story rather than allowing them to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Bertolt Brecht wrote The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui in 1941, as a warning to America about Nazism. It was ...

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The Walt Disney Co. has announced ABC’s "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" will return on Tuesday after a brief suspension. "Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further ...

The Alienation Effect: How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century by Owen Hatherley follows in the footsteps of those who fled fascism. Perhaps you’ve heard the stories ...

In a world of rapid innovation and shifting communication, the foundations of great theatre offer essential tools for actors, directors, and educators. Understanding and applying conventions from ...

Behind many symbols of quintessentially British culture – from Picture Post to Pevsner’s guides – were refugees who fled Europe in the 1930s and 40s In the early 1940s, the publisher Collins launched ...

In August 1941, the Belgian communist François Marie Claessens was arrested in Antwerp. Soon after, he was deported to Neuengamme, along with many of his Belgian comrades, and later to Dachau. He ...

German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht’s life spanned the tumultuous first half of the twentieth century. It was shaped by war, revolution, the Great Depression, the rise of fascism and Stalinism ...

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