A monthly programme about the making of music.
On the eve of the Edinburgh International Festival where Brecht's play "Happy End" will be featured, "Workshop" examines Brecht's thinking about music in the theatre with examples from "The Threepenny Opera", "The City of Mahagonny", and many other works, with music by Kurt Weill, Paul Dessau, and Hanns Eisler.
Introduced by Martin Esslin.
with Patricia Burke, Bettina Jonic, Howard Goorney, Gregory Dempsey and a contribution from the English playwright John Arden.
(Guy Woolfenden appears by permission of the Governors of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Gregory Dempsey by arrangement with Sadler's Wells Opera Company)