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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.

Bertolt Brecht

If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
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
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
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
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
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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Lasts People War
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Feelings Historical Theatre
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start

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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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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