Erwin Piscator

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Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator (17 December 1893 – 30 March 1966) was a German theatre director and producer and, along with Bertolt Brecht, the foremost exponent of epic theatre, a form that emphasizes the socio-political content of drama, rather than its emotional manipulation of the audience or on the production's formal beauty.

Writings
  • The Political Theatre: A History, 1914-1929, trans. Hugh Rorrison, New York: Avon, 1978.
Films
  • Vosstanie rybakov [Восстание рыбаков; Revolt of the Fishermen], Soviet Union, 1932-1934.
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