1. Theatre & Politics
The drama of revolution is a political text through and through, but it 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. ... (Bicknell 2012) ƒ In terms of construction, Brecht explains that epic drama does not lead to an inevitable climax, and eyes on ˜the course', not ˜the finish' unlike dramatic theatre. ... Brecht wanted his drama/theatre to ˜historicize' the events portrayed "to in...
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