Epic Theatre- Lesson 2- Drama- 7th April

Learning Question: What is  Epic Theatre?

Resource link- 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKlJZjxkplk 

  TASK 1:  Create a comparative table between the features of Epic Theatre versus Dramatic Theatre. Comment on at least 3 areas. 

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Epic Theater vs   Dramatic  Theatre


Epic theater:

• epic theater ( german: episches theater) corresponds to bertolt brecht 
• it is a theatrical movement of arising which was in the mid- 20th century.
• a number of practitioners who respond to the polictical climate of the time through the create of a new political theatre
• theater of reason non engament of emotion 
• engaging in thinking process
• reminds people that they are watching drama, not real life.
• actors are used as tools and narrorators, make the audience understand the 
• it is used to adress the audience directly with analysis, aruments, or a documentary.
• brecht used it to encourage the audience to adpot a more critical atitude to what was happening on the stage.
• brecht developed his verfremdungseffekt
• the use of anti-illusive techniques were so that he could remind the sectator that they are in a theater watching an enactment of reality and not reality itself.

Dramatic Theatre:

• it is more emottional and the oposite of the epic thetre, 
• it inolves emotions
• relays on a persons soul
• impacts the audience with alot of emotions
• treats its audience as passive and can not be reached without their emotions 
• the dramtic stage fully embodies the plot/event.