For a play written in 1939, Mother Courage and Her Children still feels upsettingly relevant. Bertolt Brecht’s condemnation ...

From award-winning NSW playwright Lachlan Philpott (Silent Disco – Australian Writers’ Guild Awards Best Stage Play 2011) and critically acclaimed director Melissa Cantwell comes Alienation, a new ...

I always thought there was something half-baked in Bertolt Brecht’s formulation of the “alienation effect.” First, there is a discrepancy between what he aims for and the method he proposes to get ...