Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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