Bertolt Brecht
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- Epic Theater and Bertolt BrechtA look at the history of Epic Theater and the influences that it has had on the theater of today.
The Unbearable Lightness of Realism: Bertolt Brecht and the Need for American Entertainment to Reject Ideological NaturalismWhat America needs is more Lord Love A Duck, Twin Peaks, and Pushing Daisies and less On the Waterfront, L.A. Law and Family Guy.- Bertolt Brecht Dramatic StructureBertolt Brecht believd that any narrative either disguises and obscures the structure of social forces or reveals and exposes them. Brecht's drama aims to reveal and expose the social forces underlying everyday events.
PleasuresAn English version of the famous German poem by Bertolt Brecht entitled Vergnugungen, meaning "pleasures"- The Rise and Fall of Mahagonny by Bertolt BrechtMoney is the root of all evil. Or so Bertolt Brecht seems to be telling us in his play, The Rise and Fall of Mahagonny in which he illustrates that a city cannot be based solely on the pursuit of monetary gain and earthly pleasures.