In the first world was he was serving as a medical orderly, and was disgusted by what the war had on individuals, he then went to Munich, then went to Berlin to try and pursue a career in theatre.
When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, Brecht then left the country and hid in Denmark-(where he wrote The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, to show the world what was happening in Germany).
When the Nazis found out they removed his citizenship for the country, then he was then a "stateless citizen".
Brecht then moved to America, where he became a resident in the US in 1941, he he didn't return to EU until 1947, after showing up at the House Un-American Activities Committee. Apparently against communism, this committee also targeted intellectuals.
Brecht started writing plays and poems while at an army hospital.
Brechtian theatre techniques:
- various individuals step out of the group and address the audience
- actors change into different characters
- non-realistic movement, slow-motion and robotic
- costumes and set to be changed in full view of the audience
- characters being known as "the woman" the "policeman"
- lots of blackouts
Brecht liked the audience to always to be lit because he wanted the audience to feel on the same level as the actors, to make them aware that they were watching watching a show, he didn't want them to feel like they were watching a show.
This is called the alienation affect is the audience not feeling a connection with the characters.
Brecht's first few plays were written while he was still living in Germany in the 1920s, not very many people knew about him for a long time though.
What we want to use in our show, to keep it in his style;
As we are doing a Brechtian play, we want to respect his idea of how theatre should be done, so here are some of our ideas of how we can do that;
- We want there to be plenty of dancing and music-(we made sure that we only used 1930s music, so it was more real) play during in the show,
- We all want to be on stage for the whole show,
- We've all been given 2-3+ characters to play in the show,
- We want the hall that we're performing in to be done up in a Cabaret style/ decorated like a Speackeasie,
Brecht liked the audience to always to be lit because he wanted the audience to feel on the same level as the actors, to make them aware that they were watching watching a show, he didn't want them to feel like they were watching a show.
This is called the alienation affect is the audience not feeling a connection with the characters.
Brecht's first few plays were written while he was still living in Germany in the 1920s, not very many people knew about him for a long time though.
What we want to use in our show, to keep it in his style;
As we are doing a Brechtian play, we want to respect his idea of how theatre should be done, so here are some of our ideas of how we can do that;
- We want there to be plenty of dancing and music-(we made sure that we only used 1930s music, so it was more real) play during in the show,
- We all want to be on stage for the whole show,
- We've all been given 2-3+ characters to play in the show,
- We want the hall that we're performing in to be done up in a Cabaret style/ decorated like a Speackeasie,
- We're thinking about using VIP tables for some members of the audience to sit at for the show,
- We want some VIP tables to sit at ourselves so we'll be sat with the audience.
-We using signs so the audience know where we are in the scene
- We want some VIP tables to sit at ourselves so we'll be sat with the audience.
-We using signs so the audience know where we are in the scene
-Also we want to use some historic videos
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