THTRFLM 1T03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Militarism, Social Realism, Storge
27 Oct 2017
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Bertolt brecht (1898-1956: german marxist, exiled in 1933, mother courage written in 1939, after germany"s invasion of poland. Realist vs. epic theatre: social realism: places moral ideals in the context of the real world, epic theatre: challenges the very conception of the real world. Epic theatre is dialectical: thesis + antithesis = synthesis, contrasting themes, causes, effects, moods, brecht provides no synthesis, forces viewer to reconcile opposites for themselves, more representative of contradictory nature of human reality. And the doing also creates alienation. The object of this effect" is to allow the spectator to criticize constructively from a social point of view ( the street scene 638) Hide the means of production: epic. Juxtaposition of elements, which comment on each other. Shows how theatre constructs a reality on stage. Reveals how social reality is also constructed. Makes audience active participants in the construction of the reality on stage.
