Bertolt Brecht
FactsBorn: 10 February 1898 Augsburg, German Empire
Occupation: Play write, theatre director Died: 14 August 1956 (58) East Berlin, East Germany |
biographyBertolt Brecht began writing plays while working at an Army hospital. Brecht's work fit with the Dadaist and Marxist movement of the time. The fact that people where not likeing the new German society after World War I fit Brecht's anti-bourgeois writing. He fled Nazi Germany and went to the US, then moved back to Berlin following World War II.
reflectionTahnee, Alec, Maddy, and the Japanese exchange student and I worked on a scene from the Caucasian chalk circle. (A Brecht play) I played an old innkeeper and a slave. Brecht wanted to make sure people knew they were watching a play and leave having learned a lesson. He did this by doing such things in his plays as having actors changing costume on stage. Or making a minimal emotional effect on the audience. This might mean a tragic death scene would be done with actors dressed as clowns, laughing as someone was dying. I found it hard to embrace brechts epic theatre, because it felt wrong to me. I couldn't help changing costume back stage, and moving
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Brecht. I didn't make this Its just helps to give an idea of Brecht. ands its entertaining.
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