Colombo theatre forum is a space created for those who are seeking new dimensions in Sri Lankan theatre.
Scholars, Directors, Script writers, Actors & Actresses, Critics, Lighting Directors, Back stage creators, Stage managers, students and spectators can join this forum in order to widen their horizons in the field of theatre.Colombo Theatre forum organized by Inter Act Art theatre and Goethe - Institut Sri Lanka was recommenced in July 2017 with the Participation of many young theatre lovers and foreign delegates.
Film: Variations
It opens with an excerpt from G.E. Lessing`s bourgeois tragedy "Emilia Galotti" and goes on to show examples of the work of the "classic" playwrights Goethe and Schiller, Kleist and Büchner, the leading dramatists of the 19th century, whose works are still of highly topical application, are represented by extracts from "The battle of the Teutoburg Forest" (Die Hermannsschlacht) and "Woyzeck" respectively.
The Film shows how Otto Brahm and Max Reinhardt freed the German stage from the historicism of the late 19th century. Expressionism is presented as an important influence on the theatre as the Berlin of the 1920s becomes the stage capital of the world. The rise of the Bauhaus theatre is described, as the political drama movement led by Erwin Piscator and Bert Brecht. 1928 sees the premiere of the latter`s "Threepenny Opera". In 1933, following the Nazis rise to power, many important figures from the arts world are forced to leave Germany.
The forum will be held every last Tuesday of the month at the Goethe Institut Hall from 5.00 pm onwards.
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