In this article four essential characteristics of the drama of realism are examined; Büchner and Brecht are taken as examples. These four are: (1) that reality is vividly drawn, (2) that the problems and contradictions in the society are emphasized, (3) that familiar events in everyday lif...
At the same time though, I have encountered discontinuity between Theatre and Music Studies, as the two rarely overlap. In this thesis I look to ascertain the exact role that music plays within Brecht's Epic Theatre theories. I will also discuss if Brecht's theories operate in the same ...
Week 8 – Brecht - What is “Epic Theatre”?. “The only form that can grasp the processes which drama needs to grasp if it is to provide an all-encompassing view of the world” BB‟s „all-encompassing view of the world’ was Marxism. Epic Theatre derives from Greek. Epos...
aWhat makes this‘defamiliarization’ different from Brecht’s ‘strangeness effect’ designed for apolitically committed theatre and devised between two world wars, is that Brecht wanted his audiences to feel estranged from capitalist society, to mobilize them for a class struggle on behalf of the ...
Meyerhold, the great Russian stage director, said that words were the decoration on the skirts of action. He was talking about Theatre, but I’ve always thought his observations applied more aptly to film. It occurred to me when I was considering what to say here that since you all don’...
Charles Monteith did not have a Kindle he could switch to; he did not have email to catch up on. He could neither take to Twitter to opine upon the unwarranted delays on the Oxford line, nor Instagram the surrounding wheatfields. He read on.There was nothing else to do. He read on ...
things a singers body can do, and be, simultaneously while OPTIMALLY delivering the greatest realisation vocally of these roles. Yet that is where at its bottom (!) line.. the thrill and reason for opera exists. That’s the hook for the addict. And we want more of those – not less....