... supported and had a passion for epic theatre, he developed an aesthetcic specifically made to reveal and demystify current illusions in reigning bourgeois ideologies. This appealed to be natural and spontaneous expressions, rather than driven by material interests or the result of historical forces. He used overtly theatrical means to make the familiar strange " otherwise known as ˜the Verfremdungseffekt' or ... 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-...

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