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  2. 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 ...

  3. Epic theatre - Wikipedia

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    Brecht used comedy to distance his audiences from the depicted events and was heavily influenced by musicals and fairground performers, putting music and song in his plays. Acting in epic theatre requires actors to play characters believably without convincing either the audience or themselves that they have "become" the characters.

  4. 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]

  5. Mother Courage and Her Children - Wikipedia

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    Neither does Brecht's ending of his play inspire any desire to imitate the main character, Mother Courage. Mother Courage is among Brecht's most famous plays. Some directors consider it to be the greatest play of the 20th century. [7] Brecht expresses the dreadfulness of war and the idea that virtues are not rewarded in corrupt times.

  6. Twentieth-century theatre - Wikipedia

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    Twentieth-century theatre describes a period of great change within the theatrical culture of the 20th century, mainly in Europe and North America. There was a widespread challenge to long-established rules surrounding theatrical representation; resulting in the development of many new forms of theatre, including modernism, expressionism, impressionism, political theatre and other forms of ...

  7. Historicization - Wikipedia

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    Historicization (becoming history) is commonly referred to the transition of an item from an object of current events to an object of historical interest or to the process of gradual change in perception and interpretation of an object or idea over time.

  8. Gestus - Wikipedia

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    Gestus, as the embodiment of an attitude, carries at least two distinct meanings in Brecht's theatre: first, the uncovering or revealing of the motivations and transactions that underpin a dramatic exchange between the characters; and second, the "epic" narration of that character by the actor (whether explicitly or implicitly).

  9. Lehrstücke - Wikipedia

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    This relates to Brecht's theory of Gestus, his substitution for traditional drama's mimesis. The relation to reality is a critical one. Brecht's refunctioned mimesis is understood not as a simple mirroring or imitation, but as a measuring; it always involves some kind of attitude on our part. It is not possible, in Brecht's view, to produce a ...