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  2. The Modern Theatre Is the Epic Theatre - Wikipedia

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    Brecht offers a vivid representation of this concept in his speech "Speech to Danish working-class actors on the art of observation" [22] Portrait of Antonin Artaud 1926. Brecht's form of the ‘Modern Theatre' was a reaction against the conventional style of performance, particularly Konstantin Stanislavski’s naturalistic approach. [23]

  3. Bertolt Brecht - Wikipedia

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    Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht [a] (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a playwright in Munich and moved to Berlin in 1924, where he wrote The Threepenny Opera with Elisabeth Hauptmann and Kurt Weill and began a life-long ...

  4. Epic theatre - Wikipedia

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    Bertolt Brecht in 1954. Epic theatre (German: episches Theater) is a theatrical movement that arose in the early to mid-20th century from the theories and practice of a number of theatre practitioners who responded to the political climate of the time through the creation of new political dramas.

  5. Lehrstücke - Wikipedia

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    Principles of interaction govern these two relations. Brecht eventually abandoned his experiments with the Lehrstücke form, but it has been taken up and developed in the last few decades by the postmodernist dramatist Heiner Müller (in plays such as Mauser (1975) and The Mission (1982)) and by the Brazilian director Augusto Boal .

  6. Category:Works by Bertolt Brecht - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Works by Bertolt Brecht" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.

  7. New Objectivity - Wikipedia

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    Bertolt Brecht, a German dramatist, launched another early critique of expressionism, referring to it as constrained and superficial. Just as in politics Germany had a new parliament but lacked parliamentarians, he argued, in literature there was an expression of delight in ideas, but no new ideas, and in theater a "will to drama", but no real ...

  8. Distancing effect - Wikipedia

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    Set design for a production of Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, featuring a large scene-setting caption Polen ("Poland") above the stage. The distancing effect, also translated as alienation effect (German: Verfremdungseffekt or V-Effekt), is a concept in performing arts credited to German playwright Bertolt Brecht.

  9. Don Juan (Brecht) - Wikipedia

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    Don Juan is an adaptation by the twentieth-century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht of the 17th century French play Dom Juan by Molière. It was the first performance of the Berliner Ensemble after its move to Theater am Schiffbauerdamm , in 1954.