This is a videotape recording of a performance, in English translation, of two of Bertolt Brecht's largely unknown and seldom performed "Uebungstuecke fuer schauspieler"-- "Practice pieces for actors". Brecht wrote these scenes to train actors in his own method for doing classical drama. These scenes were meant to be vigrously rehearsed but then omitted when the play was presented. The idea was to oblige the actors to embody their characters' human weakness. Brecht felt this would undercut any tendency on the part of the actor to adopt an "heroic" interpretation. Niot surprisingly, the "human weakness" betray economic dependency.