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...
Music is an essential component of theatre. Music was crucial for the early Greek plays, to the height of Italian opera and up to our current theatre. The writer and director Bertolt Brecht recognized the impact music had in the theatre and incorporated music into his extensive Epic Theatre th...
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 ...
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...