Science and theatre have a long history of interactions, which usually promote collaborations between artists scientists. Focussing on the performed in context science communication, this article aims to analyse collaboration scientists production play ‘Life Galileo’, by Bertolt Brecht, at Museu da Vida. Based interviews with 12 people involved production, we identified strong involvement proje...

In his article "Mahfouz between Lukácsian and Brechtian Approaches to Realism" David F. DiMeo compares the interpretations of realism by the leading Arabic author of socially committed fiction to the theories of Bertolt Brecht and György Lukács. The early works of novelist Najib Mahfouz feature a Lukácsian approach, embracing critical realism to present a totalizing view of the social system, a...

O presente artigo versa sobre as Elegias de Buckow [Buckower Elegien], produzidas por Brecht a partir meados 1953. Para análise e comentário foram selecionados 8 poemas da obra. Nestes procura-se verificar crítica do autor à situação político-social Alemanha Oriental nessa época, num quadro reapresentação elementos fascistas numa sociedade que se atribuía construção socialismo. No plano formal,...