Bertolt Brecht
Class Notes:
- He believed theatre should be political.
- He believed that theatre should be used to force people to think.
- He opposed theatre as entertainment or escapism.
- He sought to create the opposite.
- He wanted audiences to leave his plays having learn't something about themselves and the world.
- Brecht lived over a period in history which included both World War, Nazism, the Great Depression, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- Brecht despised the romantic, the sentimental and the realistic.
- He promoted political theatre.
- He did not want the audience to accept the play as a form of real life.
- He wanted the concepts presented to be looked at objectively.
- Brecht created a distinct style called Epic theatre
- It is sometimes referred to as theatre of Alienation
- Brecht had been influenced by many other earlier theatrical practitioners and theatrical styles, even those from Asia.
Personal Notes:
- Brecht wanted his work to be controversial and instigate thoughts and feeling in the audience.
- We wanted the audience to bring their brains in the performance.
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