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The Lehrstücke Project

Bertolt Brecht developed groundbreaking theories over his lifetime that transformed the world of theatre, and effectively demonstrated his belief in its decay by the bourgeois. One such theory, that of Lehrstücke, utilized Brecht’s epic techniques to create a type of performance that had no base script or boundary between the actors and the audience. It was this project, one that encompassed four of Brecht’s plays, that encompassed many of the techniques he had developed earlier into one giant example of true epic theatre.
Brecht believed that the characteristic of bourgeois theatre separated the audience and the actor, and thus, detracted from the performance. Ironically, Brecht believed this separation alienated the audience, and thus, he developed Lehrstücke, despite the fact that he also taught his actors The Alienation Effect. However, Brecht thought that by eliminating the boundaries between the actors and the audience, the emphasis in......

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