Epic theatre (German: episches Theater) is a theatrical movement that arose in the early to mid-20th century from the theories and practice of a number of theatre practitioners who responded to the political climate of the time through the creation of new political dramas. Epic theatre is not meant to refer to the scale or the scope of the work, but rather to the form that it takes.[1] Epic theatre emphasizes the audience's perspective and reaction to the piece through a variety of techniques that deliberately cause them to individually engage in a different way.[2] The purpose of epic theatre is not to encourage an audience to suspend their disbelief, but rather to force them to see their world as it is.
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Epictheatre (German: episches Theater) is a theatrical movement that arose in the early to mid-20th century from the theories and practice of a number...
20th century German director and theatre practitioner Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), "The Modern Theatre Is the EpicTheatre" is a theoretical framework implemented...
their epictheatre projects (Non-Aristotelian drama and Theatre of the Oppressed respectively) against models of tragedy. Taxidou, however, reads epic theatre...
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Lehrstücke and became a leading theoretician of epictheatre (which he later preferred to call "dialectical theatre") and the Verfremdungseffekt. During the...
the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. An example of Brecht's epictheatre, the play is a parable about a peasant girl who rescues a baby and becomes...
Nikolai Erdman, and others; Bertolt Brecht's distancing techniques in his "epictheatre"; and the "dream plays" of August Strindberg. One commonly cited precursor...
their epictheatre projects (non-Aristotelian drama and Theatre of the Oppressed, respectively) against models of tragedy. Taxidou, however, reads epic theatre...
political theatre as well as more aesthetically orientated work. Examples include: Epictheatre, the Theatre of Cruelty, and the so-called "Theatre of the...
actor is still controversial among teachers and scholars of "Epic Acting" and Brechtian theatre. By disclosing and making obvious the manipulative contrivances...
art and theory, ranging over movements including Dada, postmodernism, epictheatre, science fiction, and philosophy; additionally, it is used as a tactic...
"non-Aristotelian drama", a dramatic form intended to be staged with the methods of epictheatre. The play is a parable set in the Chinese "city of Sichuan". Originally...
back against the National Socialists. In 1934, at the request of fellow theatre director Erwin Piscator, Brecht wrote the "Einheitsfrontlied", calling...
pivotal incident: Brecht in turn quoted the moment at which the idea of epictheatre first came into his head. It happened at a rehearsal for the Munich production...
1945–1947 in collaboration with Charles Laughton, and opened at the Coronet Theatre in Los Angeles on 30 July 1947. It was directed by Joseph Losey and Brecht...
period now known as the "Epictheatre" period, before it immersed itself completely in highly political and radical theatre. His plays became an apt vehicle...
March 1966) was a German theatre director and producer. Along with Bertolt Brecht, he was the foremost exponent of epictheatre, a form that emphasizes...
his plays. Marxist playwright and director Bertolt Brecht devised an epictheatre under the influence of Shakespeare. The poet and critic T. S. Eliot argued...
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