What I know about Eugen Berthold Friedrich "Bertolt" Brecht by Travis https://padlet.com/travisdrummond51/s8tbx93357w2 A summary of knowledge en-us 2018-04-03 11:34:04 UTC 2025-11-05 23:47:02 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padletuploads.blob.core.windows.net/prod/91810442/4eab4ab0d7f4cb776574703dd4e24fd6/giraffe_icon.svg Didactic Theatre travisdrummond51 https://padlet.com/travisdrummond51/s8tbx93357w2/wish/248064634 Having shown a distaste for melodrama, Brecht then went on to create his own type of theater. Epic theatre is a form of theatre that is didactic, meaning it is very informative. To have a preformance as more informative than enjoyable, Brecht mainly used alianation to alienate the audience, so that they get less involved with the play itself and can then focus more on the information being given. ]]> 2018-04-03 11:34:04 UTC https://padlet.com/travisdrummond51/s8tbx93357w2/wish/248064634 Beltolt Brecht was a Theater practitioner, playwright and poet, of German decent. He lived through both the first and second world wars and eventually the cold war as well. He met his untimely demise in 1956 at the young age of 58. travisdrummond51 https://padlet.com/travisdrummond51/s8tbx93357w2/wish/248064635 2018-04-03 11:34:04 UTC https://padlet.com/travisdrummond51/s8tbx93357w2/wish/248064635 Brecht was a life devoted Marxist (Someone who agrees with Karl Marx's ideals and views.) Brecht was the famed creator or Brechtian theatre, or better known as Epic Theatre. travisdrummond51 https://padlet.com/travisdrummond51/s8tbx93357w2/wish/248064636
]]> 2018-04-03 11:34:04 UTC https://padlet.com/travisdrummond51/s8tbx93357w2/wish/248064636 Techniques most commonly used travisdrummond51 https://padlet.com/travisdrummond51/s8tbx93357w2/wish/248196767 -Portrayed in loosly or not related sequences (Fractured plots)
-Using different actors for one charachter
-Having an actor use their own voice and accent for a charachter of different vocal range
-Events told from single viewpoint
-Mix of natural and forced movements
-Gestus
-Direct address to audience
-Actor asked to demonstrate character at arms length, so to distance themselves.
-When describing scenes, it may sometimes be read in the 3rd person.]]> 2018-04-03 16:29:11 UTC https://padlet.com/travisdrummond51/s8tbx93357w2/wish/248196767 Effect on audience/performance: travisdrummond51 https://padlet.com/travisdrummond51/s8tbx93357w2/wish/248207618 -If a story is portrayed in different "Episodes" it will disconnect the spectators from the story and have them more focused on the one level of knowledge being portrayed instead of different levels and illusion.
-By having different actors portray the same character in different sequences, then this will be a very effective way of distancing the audience from the character itself.
-This will have the same effect as having different actors play the same character.
-Having the events told from a single viewpoint, will give us a mere one level of understanding to the situation at hand, instead of giving us a whole story from multiple perspectives.
-Having a mixture of both types of movement will once again distance the actor from whom they are playing. Natural movements will allow them to feel the character a little bit, so that they can portray it historically accurately, but then the forced will distance them again. 
-Directly addressing the audience will completely throw away any illusion of melodrama that there once was. By incorporating the audience, it alienates them.
-By describing scenes in the 3rd person, this once again destroys the 4th wall and alienates the audience from the performance. ]]> 2018-04-03 16:53:26 UTC https://padlet.com/travisdrummond51/s8tbx93357w2/wish/248207618 The Key word to all of this travisdrummond51 https://padlet.com/travisdrummond51/s8tbx93357w2/wish/248215521 ALIENATION ]]> 2018-04-03 17:09:59 UTC https://padlet.com/travisdrummond51/s8tbx93357w2/wish/248215521 Bibliography travisdrummond51 https://padlet.com/travisdrummond51/s8tbx93357w2/wish/248216914 Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. “Epic Theatre.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 25 Apr. 2017, www.britannica.com/art/epic-theatre.

“Epic Theatre Conventions.” The Drama Teacher, www.thedramateacher.com/epic-theatre-conventions/.


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