Info on bertolf Bretch- 5th march 2015

Bertolt Bretch

·         1898-1956

·         2 world wars happened while he was alive

·         Americans kicked him out so he went back to France

·         Epic theatre- epic themes, epic scale, episodic structure

·         Didn’t write about love, he wrote about war and poverty, depression and he horror of war

·         “the love of the nightingale has an epic theme, it has a background of war.

·         He sets his place usually in one room

·         He made people use there imaginations

·         Everything was set on the epic theme, for example wen they was on a boat they weren’t really thay was just acting it out so it looked like they was on a boat.

·         Air raids

·         Chaos

·         He has lights on all time so you could see everything

·         Different episodes

·         He broke down the fourth wall(idium)visible line between you and the audience, don’t look at them, everything we do is behind the fourth wall bretch sed theres no need for the wall, the audience know there watching a play, lets just get real and think logical, tell them whats happeneing through narration or through song.

·         He used flash backs

·         He made political and entertaining with music and comedy

·         Introduced plays with a truly epic scope. Made things rude and gags.

·         The best german word in theatre……… verfremdungseffekt to make something a little strange ( v- effect) something can create verfremdungseffekt.

·         Verfremdungseffekt, or v- effect is essencially what happens when you shatter the illousin that the piece of theatre the audience is watching  is real.

·         Examples wen the wall is brocken, female and male chorus

·         Looking out the window

·         Telling a story as school kids. Now where villians.

Guestus

It’s the way your physically, cosume, facial expression, attitude and use of space combine to show the audience what kind of character you are- not subtle at all, just very clear.

simplifies gesture with attitude whole charcter in one .