... practitioner who was the most influential in the development of such a political theartre wass the writer and director named Bertolt Brecht. As he 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 ... radical politics with a revolutionary breakdown of the boundary between spectator and performer. Bertolt Brecht's view on the function of theatre was that it should provoke its audience t...

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