Description
“La strana pietà del signor Bertolt Brecht e altre malinconie teatrali” is a book that aims to look at the theater in a particular perspective: ignoring the chronological succession, it takes into consideration those moments in which the theater has shown life in its essence ephemeral and senseless, with that ironic and thoughtful melancholy that had characterized Ettore Petrolini’s creations in Variety. The attitude, shared by Brecht, intense presence in Karl Valentin’s cabaret, originates in Sophocles’ severe and painful gaze. This is why the essay on Brecht’s Pietà, on the harsh suffering of Mother Courage‘s mute scream opens the way.