Epic Theatre
Submitted by suchgoodlives on October 18, 2011
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Epic Theatre
Brecht is interested in emotion, he just doesn’t want his audience to be over powered by it.
Bertolt Brecht’s “Epic theatre” is famous for its renewal and reinvention of older didactic theatre styles in a time of 2D melodrama. A staunch Marxist, rather than making speeches or launching political propaganda, Brecht saw the value in theatre’s emotional capacity to engage and hold an audience, while at the same time delivering a message. Both Mother Courage and Her Children (1939) and The Threepenny Opera (1929) display that though Brecht famously worked to avoid the emotional overpowering he saw in the theatres styles around him, wanting instead for an audience to...
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