Brecht Notes

Cumulative Bertolt Brecht notes

actors should come out of role

- narrator  

- reported speech

- frozen pictures/ tableaux 

- flashblack/non sequential time

- placards

- song/music used as contrast

- epic theatre

How is montage used?

Gestus-definition

Brecht vs. Stanislavsky

Helene Wigel

V-effect

- alienation

- detach from character 

- observe 

- message is key

(other people during this time)

-       Picasso

-       Stravinsky

-       Albert Einstein

-       Darwin

-       Freud

-       Marx

-       Industrialism

Meyerhold

-       L.paphova

o   Constructivism

-       Michael Chekov

o   Energy from the feet

-       conditioning (Pavlov)

-       biomechanics

-       focus on intention

-       realization

-       refusal of action

-       brecht was a student of Meyerhold

-       Meyerhold was a student of Stanislavsky