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.
BERTOLT BRECHTWe often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Life is short and so is money.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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