B
The Babes in the Woods (pantomime), 174 -75
The Bacchae of Euripides (Soyinka), 195
Bancroft, Squire, 19
Barbican Theatre, 175 , 180
Barker, Harley Granville, 13 , 19 ;
Waste , 46 n
Barnes, Ben, 138
Barnes, Peter, 8 , 169 -73;
The Bewitched , 169 ;
Laughter! 169 -73;
Red Noses , 169 ;
The Ruling Class , 169
Barrie, J. M.:
Peter Pan , 178 ;
What Every Woman Knows , 29
Barthes, Roland, 13 , 14 , 154
Bathrick, David, 152 n.5
Baxter, Stanley, 176 n.18
Beats (in Method acting), 57 , 60 , 62
Beckerman, Bernard, 4 n.4
Beckett, Samuel, 7 , 8 , 10 n, 86 , 100 , 108 , 131 -42, 145 ;
. . . but the clouds . . . , 133 n.19, 137 ;
Cascando , 132 ;
Catastrophe , 82 n, 132 , 134 , 141 , 142 ;
Endgame , 83 , 137 n;
Footfalls , 138 , 139 n;
Ghost Trio , 137 ;
Happy Days , 133 n.19, 138 ;
Not I , 107 , 138 -39, 139 n, 142 ;
Play ,
Beckett, Samuel (continued )
135 -37, 138 , 139 -40, 141 , 142 ;
Quad , 137 ;
Rockaby , 132 ;
Rough for Radio II , 133 , 134 -35;
Rough for Theatre I , 133 n.19;
That Time , 132 ;
Waiting for Godot , 81 , 82 , 88 , 90 , 131 , 132 , 133 n.19, 134 , 143 , 145 ;
What Where , 133 , 136 , 142
Beerbohm, Max, 48 n
Belasco, David, The Return of Peter Grimm , 18
Belsey, Catherine, 49 , 70
Benjamin, Walter, 10 -11
Bennett, Benjamin, 3 , 4 n.5, 9 , 69n, 192 n.29
Bentham, Jeremy, 21
Berger, Harry, Jr., 21 n
Bergman, Ingmar, 27 n
Berliner Ensemble, 152 , 153
Bernhardt, Sarah, 30 , 104
Betrayal (Pinter), 83 , 85
The Betwitched (Barnes), 169
Bingo (Bond), 93 , 94
The Birthday Party (Pinter), 81 , 83
Blackman, Maurice, 140 n
The Blacks (Genet), 166
Blanche, Ada, 178
Blau, Herbert, 4 , 62 n, 88 n
Bloody Poetry (Brenton), 158
Boleslavsky, Richard, 56 , 60
Bond, Edward, 8 , 29 , 55 , 89 -98, 154 -55, 155 n.7, 160 ;
Bingo , 93 , 94 ;
and Brecht, 89 -91;
The Pope's Wedding , 91 -92;
Saved , 6 , 94 -98;
The Woman , 93 ;
The Worlds , 93 , 94 n
Booth, Michael R., 175 n.15
Bornemann, Ernest, 153
Box set, 5 , 17 , 88 , 192 . See also Realism in theater: staging of
Bradford, Curtis, 116 n
Bradley, David, 177 n
Brater, Enoch, 138 n
Brecht, Bertolt, 7 , 10 n, 13 , 107 , 120 , 121 n, 148 -52, 176 ;
The Caucasian Chalk Circle , 153 ;
Galileo , 155 n.7, 169 ;
influence on British and American theater, 7 , 152 -55;
Mother Courage and Her Children , 153 ;
Threepenny Opera , 195
Brenton, Howard, 8 , 155 n.7, 158 -69, 193 ;
Bloody Poetry , 158 ;
Christie in Love , 158 ;
The Chruchill Play , 157 , 159 , 164 -69;
Greenland , 158 ;
Hitler Dances , 157 , 159 -64;
Pravda , 158 ;
The Romans in Britain , 158 ;
Scott of the Antarctic , 158 ;
Weapons of Happiness , 158
Broadway musicals, 179 , 180
Brook, Peter, 10
Brustein, Robert, 63
Bull, John, 159 n
Buried Child (Shepard), 86
Burke, Kenneth, 2 , 2 n.1, 26 n, 113 n.5 . . . but the clouds . . . (Beckett), 133 n.19, 137