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Plays

• 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.

Plays

• 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”.

Elements

  • Used the "Alienation Effect" or the "Estrangement Effect"
  • the effect makes things seem strange or different

"The object of this effect" he wrote "is to allow the spectator to criticize constructively from a social point of view"

  • Lighting - the sources of light should be visible, and lighting should be uniformly bright. No color effects or dimming. (Brecht preferred simplicity) He was also trying to avoid creating emotional effects.

HISTORY

  • The plays happened over long time spans (months, years) unlike the usual week or few days
  • Bertolt Brecht is the most well known playwright in this style.
  • Took place during the 1920s, after World War 1 in Germany.
  • Moved away from realism-plays were not over short realistic spans of time.
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