August 26, 2014
Bertolt Brecht
“The stage began to tell a story. The narrator was no longer missing, along with the fourth wall . . . the actors too refrained from going over wholly into their role, remaining detached from the character they were playing and clearly inviting criticism of him . . . The spectator was no longer in any way allowed to submit to an experience uncritically, by means of simple empathy with the characters in a play. The production took the subject matter and the incidents shown and put them through a process of alienation: the alienation that is necessary to all understanding.”
—Brecht on Theatre
The Development of an Aesthetic
Edited and translated by John Willett, 1964
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Posted by Jim
August 21, 2014
At first, of course, I wanted to love him.
But I quickly learned to hate him.
That continued well into my young-adult years.
By then, though, I had finally begun to pity him.
Then he went and died on me at age 63.
Way, way too early.
And too late.
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August 13, 2014
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“The stage began to tell a story. The narrator was no longer missing, along with the fourth wall . . . the actors too refrained from going over wholly into their role, remaining detached from the character they were playing and clearly inviting criticism of him . . . The spectator was no longer in any way allowed to submit to an experience uncritically, by means of simple empathy with the characters in a play. The production took the subject matter and the incidents shown and put them through a process of alienation: the alienation that is necessary to all understanding.”
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