Bertolt Brecht

Elinor Fuchs is a university professor whose work has revolved around the analysis of theater and comprehension of the world inside a play. She released an article with the intention of helping her readers create a better analysis of whichever play in hand by creating a series of questions that removes the reader from looking inside the world of the play into the outside. Questions such as “What changes in this world?” (Fuchs, p.7) help place the reader from the first page to the last sentence…

In Caroline, Or Change by Tony Kushner, Kushner tells the story of a black woman named Caroline, who is a domestic worker living in New Orleans. Caroline works for the Gallman's, and in the house, she befriends Noah, a young boy who recently lost his mother to cancer. The play focuses on two aspects of change: pocket change and the literal idea of change. In an attempt to get Noah to stop leaving pocket change in his clothes, Noah’s new stepmother, Rose, allows Caroline to keep any of the change…

examples from a play or plays you have seen. Berthold Brecht is the German born playwright, theatre director and father of “epic theatre” (Gradesaver.com, 2015). In this essay I will be observing how Brecht has influenced other playwrights over the years, to do this I have a play (The ballad of the burning star) and a musical (1998 Broadway version of caberet) as case studies. I will then compare the examples I find to Brecht’s own work. Brecht gave future generations many methods to…

I would have to agree with W.E.B. Dubois who stated that theatre should have the goal of social change and that it is a place for social protest. First, I would like to define the words social change and why they are important to us. Social change is notable adjustment over time. For example, presenting a certain story about a specific thing aloud to an audience could have an influence on their views. These stories have the ability to encourage the ones sitting in the audience. Theatre has the…

Taking a Risk To take a risk is to do something that may be considered hard or outside the normal for an individual. To have a child is a tremendous risk to undertake. There is risk to one’s lifestyle, financial well-being, and overall outlook on life. There can be countless rewards to all this risk as a child grows up in a father’s life. The risk involved can also make a man a better person as it may lead one to seek higher education and a more stable work environment as he will have more than…

In 1938, Antonin Artaud brought to light the important factors that should be involved in making a play. Antonin Artaud was a French dramatist, poet, actor and director. In 1931, after watching a Balinese dance at the Paris Colonial Exposition, Artaud was inspired and wrote The Theatre and its Double. Mise en Scene is the set design and surroundings involved in a play, according to Artaud it has an import role in theatre. In his manifesto, he discussed theatres lack of images, dynamism and he…

I believe that it must be difficult to balance audience awareness within the actors performance for many reasons. Firstly, the aim of incorporating the audience into the performance means that its easier for them to empathise with the characters and feel involved in the performance, thus adding to the overall affect. However this could lead to actors getting distracted by the audience around them and especially new actors found it difficult to block out the audience enough to perform confidently…

ydney Brenner was born in January 13, 1927 in Germiston, South Africa. Brenner’s parents were Jewish immigrants. His father was a shoe repairer and they lived in rooms that were at the back of his father’s store. Brenner started to read at a young age. One of his father’s customers, Miss Walkinshaw, encouraged Brenner’s father to allow Brenner to go to her kindergarten without charge. Brenner finished three years of primary school in one year and enrolled to local school when he was six. After…

SHORT ANSWER #1 Eric Bentley is stating his opinion that all theatre can be reduced to “A performs B for C”. He thinks that theatre is just someone performing for someone else (6) and without someone watching then there would be no theatre. For him A, is the actors who are performing, B, the play for, C, the audience. SHORT ANSWER #2 In regards to theatre ephemerality basically means live theatre that immediately becomes part of the past. Basically there are no set characters cast, no set…

chapter of this paper is dedicated to the man without whom there would be no Epic theatre, and the theatrical group he founded. Bertolt Brecht was born on February 10, 1898 in Augsburg, Germany. He manifested his interest in literature at a young age, writing poetry and book reviews for local papers before he was 15. His flourishing career was interrupted by WWI in 1914. Brecht was lucky enough not to have been drafted into the war until the last few weeks, and he served as a medical orderly.…