Zusammenfassung der Ressource
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.”