10 am, Sunday April 22
Alice’s Bookshop, 629 Rathdowne Street, Carlton North
Alienate your Sunday breakfast and join us at the specially early opening time of 10am, for Brechtfast at Alice’s Bookshop. Readings from Brecht’s poetry, plays, and critical extracts by Lara Stevens (author of the recent Anti-War Theatre After Brecht: Dialectical Aesthetics in the Twenty-First Century) Beryl Langer, Rory Dufficy and Michael Farrell. Coffee/tea nearby; Danish pastries, croissants provided. Gold coin donations appreciated. All are welcome.
Lara Stevens is the author of Anti-War Theatre After Brecht: Dialectical Aesthetics in the Twenty-First Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), editor and translator of Politics, Ethics and Performance: Hélène Cixous and the Théâtre du Soleil, essays by French feminist philosopher Hélène Cixous (Re.press, 2016) and co-editor of Feminist Ecologies: Changing Environments in the Anthropocene (Palgrave, 2018) with Peta Tait and Denise Varney. She currently teaches modern and contemporary theatre and performance studies at the University of Melbourne and the Victorian College of the Arts.
Michael Farrell’s recent books are Cocky’s Joy and I Love Poetry (Giramondo) and Writing Australian Unsettlement: Modes of Poetic Invention. 1796-1945. He edits Flash Cove magazine.
Beryl Langer is a writer/researcher. She is a honorary associate in the school of social inquiry at La Trobe University.
Rory Dufficy is a Junior Research Fellow in Arts at Ormond College, University of Melbourne. He works on the intersections of politics, aesthetics and rhetoric in the ‘short’ 20th century.