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alt. The area in which armed conflict takes place. n. The area in which armed conflict takes place.
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n. the entire land, sea, and air area that may become or is directly involved in war operations [syn: theatre of war]
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Theater of War is the second album by the Ohio based Christian power metal band Jacobs Dream. It was released in 2001 on Metal Blade Records.
Theater of War, a 2008 documentary film directed by John Walter, uses the rehearsal process of a play production as a lens through which to investigate German playwright Bertolt Brecht's ideas on theater, politics, and war. The chosen production is a 2006 staging of Mother Courage and Her Children, a play that Tony Kushner calls "the greatest of the 20th century". Staged by the Public Theater in New York's Central Park, the production starred Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline, and was helmed by George C. Wolfe.
Theater of War provides access to the work process of some of the greatest actors of the era as they work to convey Brecht's political and artistic insights. In parallel, the film considers the three wars that ground the Central Park production: the Thirty Years' War that forms the setting for Mother Courage; the World War II context in which Brecht wrote the play while in exile from Nazi Germany; and the current day Iraq war, which inspired Streep and her collaborators to stage the piece.
The film plumbs the many elements of preparing a stage production. Theater of War includes interviews with the composer of a new musical score, Tony nominee Jeanine Tesori, as well as with costume designer Marina Draghici, and the myriad artisans and prop creators who support the production behind the scenes. The play’s director, George C. Wolfe, discusses his own motivations and intentions for the piece, while playwright Tony Kushner describes his lifelong admiration for Brecht and his struggle to create a new translation of the playbook for this production. Oskar Eustis], the Creative Director of the Public Theater, also chimes in, sharing how Brecht’s political commitment informed his writing, and how these works can inspire change in America’s social context today.
Brecht’s own remarkable biography provides insight into the play’s themes – the devastating impact of war on ordinary people and the futility of individual vs. collective action. Theater of War follows Brecht’s journey through interviews with scholars and surviving witnesses, including novelist Jay Cantor, Brecht’s assistant director Carl Weber, and Brecht’s daughter Barbara Brecht-Schall. These interviews, in combination with archival films, photographs, and original materials from the Bertolt Brecht Archiv in Berlin, create a rich collage portrait of the man and his creative work. A prodigy who won Germany’s top literature prize at the age of 24, Brecht’s fortunes took a turn for the worse when Hitler came to power. As a Marxist and political dissident who was married to the Jewish actress Helene Weigel, Brecht was forced into exile in 1933 and stripped of his German citizenship. The Brecht-Weigel family then moved from Berlin to Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and finally Santa Monica, California, where he was subject to FBI surveillance as an “Enemy Alien” and a suspected Communist agitator. The House Un-American Activities Committee interrogated Brecht in 1947 on the same day that it called the Hollywood Ten, which spurred Brecht to return to Europe, where he settled in East Berlin. There, in the capital of the Nazis, Helene Weigel presented Mother Courage in 1949, only four years after the end of the Third Reich, in a city that was still in rubble.
Weaving the histories of these three wars together with Brecht’s own biography and the story of the Mother Courage production, Theater of War challenges audiences to think about the real impact of war, and how one might resist the drive to war through political action and art. For as Brecht noted in his commentary on “Mother Courage,” “No effort is too great in the struggle against war.”
Theater of War is distributed on DVD by Alive Mind in North America. In 2008 it was featured at the Tribeca, Rome, Provincetown, Silverdocs, Seattle, Williamstown, and Traverse City film festivals. It has screened at art house theaters around the United States, including a run at New York's famed Film Forum, where Ronnie Scheib of Variety and Manohla Dargis of the New York Times gave it rave reviews.
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Usage examples of "theater of war".
In this letter Prince Andrew pointed out to his father the danger of staying at Bald Hills, so near the theater of war and on the army's direct line of march, and advised him to move to Moscow.
But you of all people, with your deep understanding of the communications problems in this theater of war , will understand why the news reached here so belatedly.
In less than twelve years they baptized with the name Aureliano and the last name of the mother all the sons that the colonel had implanted up and down his theater of war: seven.
The theater of war, the stink and spectacle of carnage on such a scale, had so overwhelmed the senses with horror that the mind had grown numb and insensate.
I have been serving mostly on the coast of the Carolinas, and when I asked to be sent to the larger theater of war they very naturally assigned me to one of my own home regiments.
In all the villages of the empire, veterans and raw recruits were forming companies, and from the theater of war came conflicting rumors, usually false, and consequently interpreted in various ways.
The theater of war would have been irrevocably shifted entirely into Indian territory.
The captain sighed, bereft of words to explain whathad happened to these young people--and so manyother young people who were dying at that verymoment in the far-flung theater of war.
The captain sighed, bereft of words to explain what had happened to these young people--and so many other young people who were dying at that very moment in the far-flung theater of war.
But I can see no value in sending soldiers into battle for no better reason than solidarity, or delaying the invasion in order to bring the Arab armies into a different theater of war.