Bertolt Brecht — Infobox Writer name = Bertolt Brecht imagesize = 150px box width = 270px caption = birthdate = birth date|1898|2|10|df=y birthplace = Augsburg, Germany deathdate = death date|1956|8|14|df=y (aged 58) deathplace = East Berlin, German Democratic… … Wikipedia
Frank Wedekind — Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (Hannover July 24, 1864 ndash; Munich March 9, 1918), usually known as Frank Wedekind was a German playwright. His work, which often criticizes bourgeois attitudes (particularly towards sex), is considered to anticipate … 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
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
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
Karl Valentin — (born Valentin Ludwig Fey, 4 June 1882, Munich 9 February 1948, Planegg, Germany) was a Bavarian comedian, cabaret performer, clown, author and film producer who had significant influence on German Weimar culture. Valentin, as a star of many… … 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
Dialectical theatre — is a label that the German modernist theatre practitioner Bertolt Brecht came to prefer to Epic Theatre (or epic theater ) near the end of his career to describe the type of theatre that he had developed earlier in his career. From his later… … Wikipedia
Refunctioning — is a core strategy of the aesthetic developed by the German modernist theatre practitioner Bertolt Brecht. Brecht wanted his theatre to intervene in the process of shaping society, Robert Leach explains, so in his work:: [the] duality of form and … 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
