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• Bertolt Brecht’s first full length play, “Baal”, written in 1918, was
about a murderous anti-hero poet named Baal. Even though Baal was written
in 1918, it was not first preformed until 1923. It was one of the less popular ones.
• The plays of Bertolt Brecht: Baal • Drums in the Night • The Beggar • A Wedding
• Driving Out a Devil • Lux in Tenebris • The Catch •Mysteries of a Barbershop •
In the Jungle of Cities • Edward II • Man Equals Man • Downfall of the Egotist-
Johann Fatzer •The Elephant Calf • Little Mahagonny • The Threepenny Opera
• The Flight across the Ocean
• Threepenny Opera, first staged in Berlin in 1928. Is known as Brecht’s
“masterpiece”. It “exposes” the ‘abominable morals’ underlying the pathetic
bourgeois in London. It is very famous for its “abstract” music.
• Bertolt Brecht, a German playwright combined theatrical
traditions to come up with the concept of theater of alienation.
It is created to not involve the audience emotionally, but to
present arguments and social ideas (politics, etc…).
• Actually tried to remind an audience that they were watching
a performance. By “breaking conventions” like having an actor
speak to the audience, it would have the audience watch the
performance from more a critical than emotional way.
In German it’s called the “Verfremdungseffekt”.
"The object of this effect" he wrote "is to allow the spectator to criticize constructively from a social point of view"