In this lesson we began our study on Brecht. I already knew quite a bit about Brecht, as I studied him for GCSE and I have done a little bit about him on a previous blog (
http://lornaclarkra.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/bertolt-brecht.html). We also discussed fascism and communism. We discussed the meanings of these words and an example for each (Carl Marx was a communist and Hitler was a fascist). Brecht left Germany during the First World War and became a state-less citizen. Brecht was nearer the communist side of the scale then fascist as he believed that people derive to be treated equally and he left Germany because of Hitler and the Nazis.
Ollie M and I paired up and researched Brechtian techniques:
- Verfremdungseffekt = Distancing
- Wanted the audience to think
- Theatre for the brain, not for the heart
- Didn't want the audience to become emotionally attached
- Breaking the fourth wall - directly addresses the audience
- Narration
- Third-person narration (normally takes place within a freeze-frame)
- Speaking the stage directions
- Using placards
- Multi-rolling
- Minimal set / costume / props
- Symbolic props
- Bright whit lights / visible scene changes
- Song & dance - style of the music and lyrics don't seem to fit together
- Montage (a rapid sequence of cross-faded or straight-cut segments)
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