Bite of Brecht Schedule of Events

Tough Nut Cabaret
Directed by Robyn Archer
April 16-25; 8pm, 2pm Sat. Matinee
Call Box Office for More Information (412-268-2407)

Brecht on Broadway (Staged Reading)
Directed by Holger Teschke’s (former dramaturg at the Berliner Ensemble)
April 17th
Purnell Center of the Arts—Studio A
2:30pm
Free Admission

Roundtable Discussion
April 16th
4-5pm
Purnell Center for the Arts—Helen Wayne Rauh Studio Theatre
Special Guests include Robyn Archer, Stephen Brockmann, Holger Teschke, Jonathan Eaton

Movie Showing
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
April 19th
6-8pm
Purnell Center of the Arts—Room 103
Free Admission

Project Installation
Scene Design 1 and Sceneography classes will be showing works-in-progress from class projects focused on Brecht. Also, designs created by designer/professor Susan Tsu will be displayed.
In the Lobby
April 16th-18th

Podcast
Taping April 30th, air date TBD
www.cfa.cmu.edu (Lab6 Conversations on how Art Impacts Life—at the bottom)
--will take you to an explanatory page
--3 links (info, media, subscription)
--click on “Media”
--“Podcasts”
Coming Soon: http://laba6.cfa.cmu.edu
--to premiere in “Spring 2006”

Audience Talkback
April 21st
Hosted by dramaturg, Brianna Allen
In the Rauh Studio Theatre following the show

Carnegie Mellon School of Drama’s Bite of Brecht

Scene Design 1 with faculty member Anne Mundell

• Will be crafting scene design projects paralleling Brecht’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny with the history of Pittsburgh

Sceneography with faculty members Narelle Sissons and Mariann Weems

• Will also be paralleling Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny with the history of Pittsburgh, but will be working in teams of designers and directors. Both classes have done intensive on-site and historical research about the Pittsburgh region.

Basic Design with faculty member Susan Tsu

• Freshmen Design and Production students will be studying Brecht, his life, work, collaborators and influences and will culminate in in-class presentations and discussion.

Graduate Directing and senior actors with faculty members Mariann Weems

• Are collaborating in scenes from Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny in different styles.

Cross-disciplinary Scene Work with faculty members Stuart Carden and Cindy Limauro

· Junior directors, sophomore actors, junior lighting designers and first year grad lighting designers will be focusing on the process of designing and

directing for Brecht texts. Their research will result in the presentation of scenes in the light lab.

· Tues. April 28th: 3-5:30pm

History of Drama: Special Topics: Brecht with faculty member Wendy Arons

• This class will discuss the aesthetic theory and texts of Bertolt Brecht and how his work was received in his time and how it functions in a contemporary context.