Season 1
(2002)
Cast
as Narrator
as Narrator
Episodes
The Birth of the Director 0.0
April 6, 2002
The dawn of the 20th century is changing the performing arts more than ever in its more than two thousand year history.…
Games of the Dictatorships 1933-45 0.0
April 14, 2002
Under the pressure of the totalitarian regimes of Stalinism and Fascism, theater artists in Spain, Russia and Germany i…
Looking back - theater between 1945 - 65 0.0
April 21, 2002
Germany is in ruins, but theater was played again in May 1945. People are looking for entertainment and moral edificati…
Business game or endgame - Brecht and Beckett 0.0
April 28, 2002
Bertolt Brecht and Samuel Beckett were the antipodes of the theater after 1945. As the last great poet of the Enlighten…
The Children of Marx and Coca Cola - The Theater of Revolt 1963-76 0.0
May 5, 2002
The Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, the revolts in Paris and Prague are creating new political awareness, leadin…
Heroes of Postmodernism - The Theater Between Self-reflection and Crossing the Border 1970–2001 0.0
May 12, 2002
The theater at the end of the 20th century marginalized contemporary drama. But there are also exceptions: Thomas Bernh…