https://padlet.com/sfry4/pb4hqvvoeemw7qab Include as much information about Brecht as you can remember - techniques, methodologies, quotes from him, facts about his life etc en-us 2023-04-17 00:41:33 UTC 2025-11-19 18:00:29 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f3ad.png https://padlet.com/sfry4/pb4hqvvoeemw7qab/wish/2556256000 - he wanted an audience to disconnect from characters and plot and focus on the meaning
- "the philosophers only interpret the world -I intend to change it"
- may have joined the communist party
- The dialectical materialism of both served as the basis for Brecht's understanding of the social world and history.
- verfremdungeffekt
- critiques in opposition of Brecht has taken many forms, from feminist and queer critiques to Brecht’s Marxist critiques.
- Brecht once said that it was only after reading Marx that he finally understood his own plays]]> 2023-04-17 02:43:34 UTC https://padlet.com/sfry4/pb4hqvvoeemw7qab/wish/2556256000 https://padlet.com/sfry4/pb4hqvvoeemw7qab/wish/2556285430 - gestus 
- verfremdungseffekt (alienation)
- antirealism
- relationship between actors and audience
- speaking lines in past tense
-speaking in third person
-speaking stage directions
- direct address to audience
- A montage is a series of freeze frames, images, projections or scenes
put together in no particular order. Often music is played over the top.
- narration: The actor tells the story out loud. Sometimes the narrator will tell us
what happens in the story before it has happened. This is a good way of making sure that we don’t become emotionally involved in the action to come as we already know the outcome.
- figures (not character) Brecht didn’t want the actors to play a character onstage, only to show them as a ‘type’ of person in society. 
- Multi-roling is when an actor plays more than one character onstage. The differences in character are marked by changing voice, movement, gesture and body language but the audience can clearly see that the same actor has taken on more than one role. 


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