... role. Events should be shown without emotion and the text alienated by reporting on events rather than performing them. (www. ; Dramarama 12, 2002: 93) Rather than feeling empathy for the characters, the audience should be inspired to change the evils of society brought to their attention. As Brecht himself says, "The actor himself does not become completely transformed on the stage ... 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 physica...

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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 ... feel emotions, but instead to think about what was being presented to them. Brecht argued that plays should not try to make the audience believe in or identify with the characters on the stage; instead a play should f...

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