... Fugard and their repeated use of societies outcasts as a means to portray the condition of all people. Fugards The Island ends with Winston's open-ended monologue in the character of Antigone. No physical presence of inmates leads to the audience in the theatre "becoming" the inmates to whom Winston delivers his speech; creating a play-within-a-play situation. This disturbing ending allows ... ...

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... with half-truths. He immediately flew to Switzerland as a result though. After 15 years of exile Brecht returned to Germany in 1948 and spent a year in Zurich working on Sophocles ANTIGONE and on his major theoretical work A LITTLE ORGANUM FOR THE THEATRE. After Zurich, Brecht moved in 1949 to Berlin where he founded his own Marxist theatre named, the Berliner Ensemble ... ...

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