Brecht

Brecht

1. 1898-1956

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2. 1898-1956

   • Playwright
   • Poet
   • Practitioner
   • Director

3. What is Epic Theatre?

   • 20th Century
   • Other contributors
     • Mayakovsky
     • Piscator
     • Meyerhold
   • Marxism
     • "Working class can rebuild society"
     • Emphasized struggles of lower class
     • Creation of classless society
   • German revolution
     • Dedicated himself to literary

4. Purpose of theatre

   • Provide entertainment and education
   • didactic
   • Enlightening to social problems
   • Appeal to conscience, not feelings
   • "Staring is not seeing"
     • Theatre should be reflective
   • Audience don't identify with characters
   • Episodic scenes

5. Techniques

   • Play
     • Scenes are random
       • interrupted with songs, dance, captions and gestures
         • Time for audience to think
     • Different point of views
       • Audience dragged out of realism
     • Scene introduced in advance
   • Actor
     • Narrators
     • Switched roles
     • Gestus
   • Stage
     • Costume changes on stage
     • White light
     • Projections
     • reuse props
   • Alienation effect
     • Techniques
       • Cations
       • Placards
       • Reported speech
       • Stage directions aloud
       • Exaggeration
       • Humor and focus
       • Tableaux
       • Monologue
       • Split scene
       • Cross cutting
       • Music
       • Dance
       • Narrator
         • Objective perspective
       • Characterisation
   • Audience
     • Get them involved

6. Key Ideas

   • Didacticism
     • instructive/ teaching a lesson
   • alienation
     • Separate actors from audience
   • Historification
     • Setting events in another place or time

7. Quotes

   • "you actors are seen as dealers in narcotic drugs"
   • “People are changed into kings, and perform heroic deeds without risk.”