Distancing effect — The distancing effect, commonly mistranslated as the alienation effect[dubious – discuss] (German: Verfremdungseffekt), is a performing arts concept coined by playwright Bertolt Brecht which prevents the audience from losing itself passively and… … Wikipedia
Non-Aristotelian drama — Non Aristotelian drama, or the epic form of the drama, refers to a kind of play whose dramaturgical structure departs from the features of classical tragedy in favour of the features of the epic, as defined in each case by the ancient Greek… … Wikipedia
Demonstration (acting) — Demonstration is a central part of the Brechtian approach to acting. It implies a definite distance built into the actor s manner of playing a character (in contrast to the absolute identification with a character demanded by the Stanislavski… … Wikipedia
Complex seeing — is a type of spectator response that epic theatre seeks to provoke in its audience. Complex seeing involves the formation of a critical attitude by the spectator towards the events represented by the drama. v … Wikipedia
The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre — is a theoretical work by the twentieth century German theatre practitioner Bertolt Brecht. It was composed in 1930 as a set of notes to accompany his opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny . In it, he outlines his ideas for a refunctioning… … Wikipedia
Messingkauf Dialogues — The Messingkauf Dialogues (Dialogue aus dem Messingkauf) is an incomplete theoretical work by the twentieth century German theatre practitioner Bertolt Brecht.[1] John Willett translates Der Messingkauf as Buying Brass .[2] See also Bertolt… … Wikipedia
sexuality and behaviour — Chinese have long been perceived as prudish about sex, a judgment at odds with the culture’s rich textual history of erotica and pornography, but very strictly in keeping with the administered sexual Puritanism of the Chinese Communist Party.… … Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture
Epic theatre — (German: episches Theater) was a theatrical movement arising in the early to mid 20th century from the theories and practice of a number of theatre practitioners, including Erwin Piscator, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Vsevolod Meyerhold and, most… … Wikipedia
assemblage — by Graham Livesey The concept of assemblage, developed by Deleuze and Guattari, derives from the English translation of their concept in French of agencement (arrangement), or the processes of arranging, organising, and fitting together.… … The Deleuze dictionary
assemblage — by Graham Livesey The concept of assemblage, developed by Deleuze and Guattari, derives from the English translation of their concept in French of agencement (arrangement), or the processes of arranging, organising, and fitting together.… … The Deleuze dictionary
