Bertolt Brecht's first play, Baal, translated by Eric Bentley, opens Thursday, March 1 at The Looking Glass Theatre. The production is directed by Charmian Creagle and features music composed by Alan ...

In this month's Low Culture essay, Paul Burston looks back at David Bowie's appearance in BBC TV adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's Baal, exploring how the German playwright was a frequent inspiration to ...

3 March 1982: Nancy Banks-Smith reviews a BBC production of Brecht’s Baal in which David Bowie plays the main role as well as getting to pluck a banjo Baal is a young musician rather given to striking ...

ACCORDING to the official site of the famed Dutch RO Theater, Bertolt Brecht’s Baal “is a rebel who wants to redefine all the rules and human values himself”. But in the provocative interpretation of ...

In 1982, Scum director Alan Clarke cast David Bowie in an adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s early play for the BBC. Baal was Brecht’s first full length play, written in 1918 (reworked in 1926). Bowie ...

If the poster were anything to go by, Baal was to be an earnest, wrenching and dark drama of sunken sockets and deep grimaces. Weary of exactly such grand concepts and heavy emotions, the young Brecht ...

Columbia Stages presents Bertolt Brecht's BAAL, translated by Peter Tegel and directed by James Dacre, running October 22nd - 25th, 2008, at The Riverside Theatre, located in the historic Riverside ...

Last weekend Dread Central decided to get a bit of culture and headed over to Sacred Fools Theater to check out film/TV/viral director Ben Rock’s (Alien Raiders) intense new project, Baal. Based on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1982, Scum director Alan Clarke cast David Bowie in an adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s early play for the BBC. Baal was Brecht’s ...