THTRFLM 1T03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Bertolt Brecht, Social Realism, Social Determinism
25 Jul 2016
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Mother courage in 1939, after germany"s invasion of poland. Social realism: places moral ideals in the context of the real world. Epic theatre: challenges the very conception of the real world. We aren"t supposed to be swept up with the characters. The goals of epic theatre: to show how social reality is constructed. Ideology, dominant ideology of the times in which the play is performed: to make the audience aware of the social consequences of that construction, to prompt the audience to take charge of the construction of their world. Due to this goal the audience must participate and buy into the ideals of the play. Brecht: art is not a mirror help up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it . More representative of contradictory nature of human reality. Not always a happy ending, we have questions with no answers. The familiar is made strange and the strange made familiar .
