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Brechts Play

Brecht's plays aimed to educate audiences and instruct them on social issues and movements through didactic works. His epic theatre style aimed to make audiences understand events on stage as past accounts rather than empathizing with characters. Brecht wanted audiences to think critically about the concepts in his plays rather than get absorbed in the drama.

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Brechts Play

Brecht's plays aimed to educate audiences and instruct them on social issues and movements through didactic works. His epic theatre style aimed to make audiences understand events on stage as past accounts rather than empathizing with characters. Brecht wanted audiences to think critically about the concepts in his plays rather than get absorbed in the drama.

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Brecht’s Play

The plays of Brecht were didactic and aimed to instruct their public. Brecht used the word
'Lehrstück,' meaning 'learning play'. The theatre of social movements who want the audience to
change the world outside of the walls of the theatre.   The theatre of realism was loathed by
Brecht.
In his popular theatres "Life of the Caucasian Chalk Circle, the Caucasian Chalk Circle, the
Mercy of the Third Reich, "The Life of Galileo; Mother Courage & Her Children; The Good
Person of Szechwa, and many others”, he voiced his opposition to the national-socialist and
fascist movements. He gave information to the audience about these movements.
Brecht’s play educated people in many ways. By making an epic theatre, the Brecht has
shaped the history of the theatre based on the premise that the theatre is not to give the public
trust in the presence of the characters on the stage but rather to make them understand that what
they see on the stage is merely an account of the past events.
In Brecht's view, dramatic theatre does, rather than trigger its audiences, enthrall the viewer by
interacting with the characters and taking part in the event. When audiences watch such displays,
they hang up their minds with their jackets. He comments caustically. Brecht portrays a dramatic
performance, sunk to a peculiar drug state and completely passive, satirically in a typical public.
To learn from the theatre, people must be alert, sensible and socially involved. They should be
critically remote, a requisite mentality, instead of engaging with the characters, if they are to deal
with the conceptions that Brecht poses.
While Brecht thought theatre was supposed to teach, he emphasized that it must be fun too. In
the scenes of his plays, he educated people on the social points. In Brecht's epic theatre, the use
of historical material is also an important feature. Brecht hoped to make his audience challenge
middle-class ideals through his parodies of classical works.

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