THEA 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Bertolt Brecht, Epic Theatre, Poiesis
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Epic theatre was a form of political theatre which- drawing from various theatre traditions, including chinese, japanese, indian, and russian sought to engage audience members in social critique and action. We are becoming hypnotized in the tradition theatre form and jolt us out of that trance and into critical thinking. You do not identify with the character because it"s odd, but it makes you ask the question as to why they are doing this. Brecht would try to represent violence in dissimilar ways to familiarize ourselves with: people were desensitized as a result of this, e. g. There is a distant between the character and the actor; you never actually become the character. It is an epic story telling rather than the up and down plot (aristelion) Brecht wrote his plays in a different historical context. A method of research that looks of people or cultures through the researcher. Rather than homo sapiens, we are homo performers .
