On the other hand, he writes - Expressionism "vastly enriched the theatre's means of expressions and brought aesthetic gains that still remain to be exploited" (Brecht, 132). ... In this way the theatre could project a picture of the world by artistic means and offer models of life that could help the spectators to understand their social environment and the master it both rationally and emotionally. ...

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His systems helped actors find their inner truth, he wanted actors to live on stage. ... Their work helped the departure of theatre from realism. ... Dadaism lad the foundations for Surrealism, a literary and art movement influenced by Freudianism and dedicated to the expression of imagination as revealed in dreams, free of the conscious control of reason and free of convention. ... His Epic Theatre" was in which narrative, montage, self-contained scenes, and rational argument were used to create a shock of realization in the spectator. ... He helped Brecht popularize Epic Theatre. ...

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This appealed to be natural and spontaneous expressions, rather than driven by material interests or the result of historical forces. ... From his twenties onwards, he thought and worked in terms of Marxist dialectic and he really wasn't kidding. " (Bicknell 2012) Over the course of his career, Brecht developed his so-called epic theatre, in which narrative, montage, self-contained scenes, and rational argument were used to create a shock of realization in the spectator. ...

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