Download or read book The Political Theatre written by Erwin Piscator and published by Methuen Publishing. This book was released on 1980 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Political Theatre' is among the most important documents of the modern stage. It tells of the foundation and flowering in Weimar Germany of a new form of theatre - epic theatre - designed to bring on to the stage the real political issues of the time, and to do so with all the aids that modern technology could supply.