Kuo Pao Kun (1939–2002) was often regarded as the doyen of Singapore theatre. The interview reveals how his theatre practice in the 1960s–1970s worked through Chinese theatre (in both its spoken and more traditional sung forms), Brechtian theatre (with its alienation effect) and modern ...
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...
It is the set of dominant ideas and values in any era that perpetuate and legitimize the supremacy of the ruling class; such values or beliefs are usually covert and may go unrecognized, but they percolate all the culture and art of the given era. French Marxist theoretician Louis Althusser...
Jean-Luc Godard, a former film critic at Cahiers du cinéma, once said that the only valid way to criticize a movie was to make one of your own. He and his fellow Nouvelle Vague filmmakers broke the conservative paradigm in editing, shooting, and narrative form after attacking the “traditi...
[5] Brecht argued that it was necessary to resort to newly available techniques of montage and fragment but also to poetry and theatre, genres traditionally excluded by what were then current theories of realism. Obviously, none of this served Blest Gana critics who needed appropriate categories ...