Bertolt Brecht is among the most important playwrights of the twentieth century – it was he who coined the term "epic theater." His work is deemed sophisticated and sometimes difficult and ...

You might choose to adopt Brechtian techniques because you’ve been told that you must exploit the ideas of a major practitioner in your work. Or it may be that the objectivity of the style suits ...

But in this case, the principles being questioned are the very ones that Brechtian theatre aims to promote. Brecht’s notion of the epic theatre was founded on the concept of the ...

He did not want his audiences to feel, but to think, and his main theoretical thrusts - 'Verfremdungseffekte' (de-familiarization devices) and epic theater, among others - were conceived in pursuit of ...

The style is then traced from Kaiser and Toller to O'Neill, Wilder and the later O'Casey. Important producers are Reinhardt and Meyerhold. Epic theatre is studied from Piscator and Brecht to ...

It was 1971, and Mindanao was being rocked by a violent conflict between the Christian military and Muslim rebels. Nanay Bangis (Geraldine Villamil) pushed a cart around the roads to sell her goods to ...