PPT-Bertolt Brecht Epic Theatre

Life and Times 18981956 German poet playwright and theatre director Staunch Marxist Plays The Threepenny Opera Mother Courage and Her Children The Life of Galileo The Good Woman of . Catch / Bertolt Brecht; Transl. by P.Tegel, J. Willett, G. Nellhaus, J. Benedetti, M. Hamburger, R. Grunberger, E. Geisel. - London : Methuen, 1970. - 456 S. Collected plays, 2.1 : Man equals man. Th There exist similarities between the theatres and amphitheatres of ancient Rome/Italy. They were constructed out of the same material, Roman concrete, and provided a place for the public to go and see numerous events throughout the Empire. However, they are two entirely different structures, with specific layouts that lend to the different events they held. Amphitheatres did not need superior acoustics, unlike those provided by the structure of a Roman theatre. While amphitheatres would feature races and gladiatorial events, theatres hosted events such as plays, pantomimes, choral events, and orations. Their design, with its . Bertolt. Brecht [1898-1956] was a major and highly influential German poet, playwright, theater director and songwriter. Brecht fled Germany in 1933, when Hitler assumed power. A number of Brecht's poems were written from the perspective of a man who sees his country becoming increasingly fascist, xenophobic and militaristic. For instance this one about Nazi book burnings orchestrated by propaganda-. The Odyssey . by Homer. PowerPoint by Erin Salona. The Traditional Epic. The Epic Hero is superhuman--braver and stronger than ordinary people. There is some all-knowing or wise person who helps the protagonist. Brecht (1898 – 1956). Bertolt. Brecht (1898 – 1956). Interest in film, esp. Chaplin and slap . stick. Bertolt. Brecht (1898 – 1956). Interest in film, esp. Chaplin and slap stick. Dramaturg. Theatricalism. and Epic Theater. 2010.05.20. The stage as platform. Expressionism in Germany as early as 1912 was highly influential in the arts, most especially in writing and performance styles for the theater.. "The play is not so much an attack on. Hitler, but rather upon the. complacency of the people who were. able to resist him, but didn't.“ . Brecht. Allegory/ parable/ satire. Brecht wrote the play in 1941, to allegorically reflect the rise of the Nazi’s in Germany (he had already fled the country at this point) and was written to be produced in America.. 1898 - 1956. “I am a playwright. I would actually like to have been a cabinetmaker, but of course you don’t earn enough doing that.”. Social Context. 1914-1918 First World War . Brecht posted as a medical orderly in his home town. . Understanding and Analyzing Epic, or Homeric Similes. Definition. A Homeric simile is an elaborate comparison, developed over several lines, between something strange or unfamiliar to the audience and something more familiar to them. . Pedagogical Theater. Last time…. One of the goals of EPIC THEATER is to interrupt our pity, doing so by . de-naturalizing . the dramatic event going on on stage…. By making Mother Courage’s and her children’s experiences of the war and their reactions to it . t. he Epic Hero. What does it take to become an . epic hero. ?. He . is a . man. who seems . able to conquer most problems . that he . encounters. .. He does . not. . have. any . “super” powers. . “Lo spettatore del teatro antico dice: […] Io piango con colui che piange, io rido con colui che ride. Lo spettatore del teatro epico dice: […] Io rido di quello che piange, io piango di quello che ride”. Week 15. [Part 1]. Introduction to Theatre. College of the Desert. Realism. Realism in the last half of the 19th-century began as an experiment to make theater more useful to society. . The . mainstream theatre from 1859 to 1900 was still bound up in melodramas, spectacle plays (disasters, etc.), comic operas, and vaudevilles. institution in anyprevious yearNoTesting PlanNo I prefer to apply test optional