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Brecht
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Mind Map on Brecht, created by claudia_quek on 08/12/2013.
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Brecht
1898-1956
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1898-1956
Playwright
Poet
Practitioner
Director
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
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
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
Key Ideas
Didacticism
instructive/ teaching a lesson
alienation
Separate actors from audience
Historification
Setting events in another place or time
Quotes
"you actors are seen as dealers in narcotic drugs"
“People are changed into kings, and perform heroic deeds without risk.”
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