Brecht

Brecht

1898-1956
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1898-1956
1. Playwright
2. Poet
3. Practitioner
4. Director
What is Epic Theatre?
1. 20th Century
2. Other contributors
  1. Mayakovsky
  2. Piscator
  3. Meyerhold
3. Marxism
  1. "Working class can rebuild society"
  2. Emphasized struggles of lower class
  3. Creation of classless society
4. German revolution
  1. Dedicated himself to literary
Purpose of theatre
1. Provide entertainment and education
2. didactic
3. Enlightening to social problems
4. Appeal to conscience, not feelings
5. "Staring is not seeing"
  1. Theatre should be reflective
6. Audience don't identify with characters
7. Episodic scenes
Techniques
1. Play
  1. Scenes are random
    1. interrupted with songs, dance, captions and gestures
      1. Time for audience to think
  2. Different point of views
    1. Audience dragged out of realism
  3. Scene introduced in advance
2. Actor
  1. Narrators
  2. Switched roles
  3. Gestus
3. Stage
  1. Costume changes on stage
  2. White light
  3. Projections
  4. reuse props
4. Alienation effect
  1. Techniques
    1. Cations
    2. Placards
    3. Reported speech
    4. Stage directions aloud
    5. Exaggeration
    6. Humor and focus
    7. Tableaux
    8. Monologue
    9. Split scene
    10. Cross cutting
    11. Music
    12. Dance
    13. Narrator
      1. Objective perspective
    14. Characterisation
5. Audience
  1. Get them involved
Key Ideas
1. Didacticism
  1. instructive/ teaching a lesson
2. alienation
  1. Separate actors from audience
3. Historification
  1. Setting events in another place or time
Quotes
1. "you actors are seen as dealers in narcotic drugs"
2. “People are changed into kings, and perform heroic deeds without risk.”

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