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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Bertolt Brecht

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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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
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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Art Epic Film History Purpose Song
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
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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Art Discovery Reality
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
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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Able Strong Theatre

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