Ways to Alienate

Signs: 
- Big signs were used to designate:
   Obvious stage props 
   Characters
   Places 
   Or to comment on action 

Song:
- Songs were used to break up the scenes 
- To alienate the audience 
- To comment on the action in the play

Generalised Characters:
- As Epic Theatre discouraged audiences from identifying with or becoming too attached to characters, general roles were written.
- Some characters had names but often they were only know as mother, worker etc.

Actor:
- Actors often stepped out of the action to talk directly to the audience.

Historification (word that only exists in epic theatre):
- All events were set in the past
- He didn't want audiences to bring their own contemporary societal conditioning to view the pay
- This was so that audiences would be able to watch and consider critically