The following sites provide food for theatrical imagination.

Brecht

http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~jamesf/goodwoman/brecht_bio.html

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/brecht.htm

An excellent site full of links to Brecht (mostly in German): Bertolt Brecht Institutionen

A Model of Mother Courage (different portrayals)

Stanislavsky

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/stanislavsky_c.html

Referring to David Mamet's "True and False" this writer suggests: "... even a brilliant man could talk nonsense." http://method.vtheatre.net/stanislavsky.html

Some useful equating with Meyerhold and the ancients: http://www.vtheatre.net/acting/title.html

A fascinating discussion on Stanislavsky's production of The Cherry Orchard: http://newmedia.cgu.edu/stageart/sullivan/stan.html

Here is a most useful article in comparing different theoretical perspectives of Stanislavsky, Brecht, Piscator, Mayerhold, Craig and others: http://www.kingsnortonboys.bham.sch.uk/subjects/drama/pages/stanisl.pdf

This is a most interesting article looking at weaknesses in Stanislavsky's approach while also pointing up what it actually entails. There are some good references to Peter Brook. Stanislavsky on Home Ground by JOHN ELSOM

 

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