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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.
Defamiliarization has been associated with the poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht, whose Verfremdungseffekt ("estrangement effect") was a potent element of his approach to theatre. In fact, as Willett points out, Verfremdungseffekt is "a translation of the Russian critic Viktor Shklovskij's phrase 'Priem Ostranenija', or 'device for making ...
Bertolt Brecht [ edit on Wikidata ] Conceptualised by 20th century German director and theatre practitioner Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), " The Modern Theatre Is the Epic Theatre " is a theoretical framework implemented by Brecht in the 1930s, which challenged and stretched dramaturgical norms in a postmodern style. [ 1 ]
Refunctioning (German: Umfunktionierung) is a core strategy of the aesthetic developed by the German modernist theatre practitioner Bertolt Brecht. "Brecht wanted his theatre to intervene in the process of shaping society," Robert Leach explains, so in his work:
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.
The technique of interruption pervades all levels of the stage work of the German modernist theatre practitioner Bertolt Brecht—the dramatic, theatrical and performative.At its most elemental, it is a formal treatment of material that imposes a "freeze", a "framing", or a change of direction of some kind; something that is in progress (an action, a gesture, a song, a tone) is halted in some way.
The Good Person of Szechwan (German: Der gute Mensch von Sezuan, first translated less literally as The Good Man of Setzuan) [1] is a play written by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, in collaboration with Margarete Steffin and Ruth Berlau. [2]
Downfall of the Egotist Johann Fatzer (German: Der Untergang des Egoisten Johann Fatzer) is an unfinished play by Bertolt Brecht, written between 1926 and 1930.Translated as Downfall of the Egotist Johann Fatzer or Demise of the Egotist Johann Fatzer, the play is often called the Fatzer Fragment, or simply Fatzer.