Sunday, April 12, 2015

brecht notes in general

1. coming out of role
2. narrator
3. reported speech
4. tableaux
5. flashbacks and non sequential time
6. placards
7. song and music is used or juxtaposition impact
8. epic theatre 

V-effect= alienation. distance from audience. 

- communist ideas
- Karl Marx influence
- Meyerhold influence 

Brecht's world of conflict and contradictions 

Gestus-definition 
- personal and social revelation
- physical embodiment of the relationship between people and society

ex.) Mother courage embodies a concept or idea Bercht is trying to tell people about 


Stanislavsky vs Brecht
dramatic vs epic theatre

epic theatre
- covers so many locations

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