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BERTOLT BRECHT AND EPIC THEATRE

BERTOLT BRECHT AND EPIC THEATRE. What is Epic Theatre?. Where it originated- Epic Theatre is now used to describe the style made famous in Germany after World War I by directors like Max Reinhardt, Erwin Piscator , and (most commonly known) Bertolt Brecht.

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BERTOLT BRECHT AND EPIC THEATRE

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  1. BERTOLT BRECHT AND EPIC THEATRE

  2. What is Epic Theatre? • Where it originated- • Epic Theatre is now used to describe the style made famous in Germany after World War I by directors like Max Reinhardt, Erwin Piscator, and (most commonly known) Bertolt Brecht. • This style flourished in the cabarets of Berlin during the ill-fated German "Weimar Republic" of the 1920's and early 30's. • The rise of Hitler's Nazi Regime choked off its development after 1933, when Brecht and other epic theatre practitioners were forced to flee persecution and arrest by the Gestapo, the style moved to the U.S. and Great Britain, and returned to Central and Eastern European theatre after World War II. BERTOLT BRECHT AND EPIC THEATRE

  3. What is Epic Theatre? The hidden message- Influenced by the horror of World War I's holocaust, by the suffering of the middle and lower classes during the post war recessions of the 1920's and the Great Depression of the 1930's and by the teaching of Marxism, Brecht (and other directors) developed a set of staging and acting techniques. These techniques were used to teach their audience to criticize the injustices and unfairness of modern life. Two keys to their technique are the notion of "theatricalism" and the concept of the "distancing" or "alienation" effect.

  4. What is Epic Theatre? • Other Epic theatre practioners- • Augusto Boal • Bertolt Brecht • Howard Brenton • Caryl Churchill • David Edgar • Joan Littlewood • Vladimir Mayakovsky • John McGrath

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