... and a failure. It was a success because it was highly popular, but it was a failure in that it caused the audience to feel sympathy for its characters, which violated Brecht's technique of "epic theatre." In these mature works Brecht overgrew the single-minded didactic message of his earlier pieces, and achieved complex themes ... on his own. He then spent the rest of the year and the whole year of 1948 in Zurich, where he worked mainly on the play Antigone-Modell; an adapted work from the translation of Sophocles. Later that year Brecht worked on a play called A Little Orangum for the Th...

• Word Count: 1760
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School