... our abilities in demonstrating them in our final performance. For our first task, we began to explore an entirely new style of drama "Epic Theatre. Growing up in a middle class family and inspired by expressionism and communism ideals, Brecht revolutionised the course of modern European theatre in his ... between all people and the non-existence of social stratification that proves to be a major difficulty in this play. Inspired by these principles, Brecht formed epic theatre that, as he puts it, "turns the spectator into an observer, but arouses his capacity for action, forces him to ta...

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... our abilities in demonstrating them in our final performance. For our first task, we began to explore an entirely new style of drama "Epic Theatre. Growing up in a middle class family and inspired by expressionism and communism ideals, Brecht revolutionised the course of modern European theatre in ... between all people and the non-existence of social stratification that proves to be a major difficulty in this play. Inspired by these principles, Brecht formed epic theatre that, as he puts it, "turns the spectator into an observer, but arouses his capacity for action, forces him to take ...

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... of the Town of Mahogany. Also during this year he wrote his first "exemplary plays," A Man's Man, which introduced his unorthodox idea of "epic theatre." Epic theatre is a technique created by Brecht, which causes the audience to feel no emotions about a play, but to think critically about its content. This ... highly popular, but it was a failure in that it caused the audience to feel sympathy for its characters, which violated Brecht's technique of "epic theatre." In these mature works Brecht overgrew the single-minded didactic message of his earlier pieces, and achieved complex themes...

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... development of theatre in the 20th century. It will be discussed in chronological order. It will trace the development of theatre from the late 19th century through realism, naturalism, symbolism, Epic theatre, Existentialism and the Theatre of the Absurd. With each new genre it will ask why it emerged, what was it trying to say and how was it saying it ... II. Spanish painter Salvador Dali was also known as a great leader of surrealism. See above for examples of his work. Epic Theatre was developed over a period of ten years by Bertolt Brecht(1898-1956). He was an active yet outspoken ...

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... . The ending is effective in the sense that, as Brecht intended, the audience are forced into thinking about the issues surrounding the play. This is due to Brecht use of epic theatre and alienation techniques as well as the main themes running through the play, such as capitulation, war as business, virtues and religion. The actual meaning of the play is ... last scene. It is Brecht's aim to awaken the audience's minds, make them think for themselves about society rather than spending too much time concentrating on the characters. Brecht developed epic theatre, as he felt that naturalis...

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... of Piscator's work where he states that "they were striving towards an entirely new social function of the theatre," (Brecht p, 131) but he proposed a further advance in the development of epic theatre. Brecht's Marxist political convictions led him to propose an alternative direction for the theatre that would fuse the two functions of instruction and entertainment. In this way the theatre ... 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 follow the method of epic poetry, which is to ...

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... making audiences aware of degradation and dehumanising of people and the ultimate transcendence of human identity, dignity and pride. (Dramarama 12, 2000: 45) Unlike Brecht, Peter Shaffer chose to use Epic theatre as a medium of emphasizing perspectives of psychological exploration of individual sensibilities rather than exploring social truths as Brecht has previously demanded of ... Epic Theatre. However, many Brechtian inspired alienation techniques can be seen in his play Equus (1973). Martin Dysart, a character in the play, disregards the invisible fourth wall by directly addressin...

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