... cannot separate the political from the theatre; the drama of revolution is in search of a form, a meta-theatre, in which the overcoming of an order is thus first and foremost the attempt to suspend the law of genre. This essay will examine the role and discourse of the theatre in Brecht ... political upheaval, the first and major one triggered by the Russian Revolution of 1917 and its aftermath, and the second coming in the 1960s and 1970s. (Chambers 2002) Common themes developed " for peace against war, for democracy and justice against exploitation and tyranny " and common forms too, ...

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