Bertolt Brecht

Brecht created

• The method

• The system

• Epic Theatre

• Theatre of cruelty

What technique did Brecht NOT advocate

• Evoking sympathy from the audience

• Creating sterotypical characters

• One actor playing several characters (multi-roling)

• Speaking directly to the audience

What did Bertolt Brecht like to do with the audience

• Scare them

• Isolate them

• Involve them

• Exclude them

Why was Epic theatre created

• He wanted people to use their intellect

• To annoy Stanislavski

• To make money

• Because no other theatre existed

Verfremdungseffekt means

• Making people happy

• Creating an emotional distancing so an audience thinks about what is happening

• Creating a realistic character so the audience feel empathy

• Good acting

What is the alienation affect

• Making the audience feel awkward and confused

• Creating drama that includes aliens

• An audience will connect to the play using their intellect instead of their emotions

• Making an audience cry with sympathy for a character

Which 3 of these techniques would Brecht use

• Tableu

• Emotion memory

• Song

• Speaking in third person

What does the term multi-roling mean?

• Rolling across the stage multiple times

• When a female and male actor play the same role

• When several actors play the same role

• When an actor plays more than one character onstage

What epic theatre technique is defined as a style of acting that used gestures, facial expressions, and tone of voice to make a political point?

• Verfremdung

• Episodic structure

• Political themes

• Gestus

Which of these would Brecht use

• Actor would sit with the audience

• A narrator

• No set or props on stage

• Actors would come out of character on stage

• Costume, set and props would resemble real life