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WorksheetsBertolt Brecht
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Brecht created
The method
The system
Epic Theatre
Theatre of cruelty
What technique did Brecht NOT advocate
Evoking sympathy from the audience
Creating sterotypical characters
One actor playing several characters (multi-roling)
Speaking directly to the audience
What did Bertolt Brecht like to do with the audience
Scare them
Isolate them
Involve them
Exclude them
Why was Epic theatre created
He wanted people to use their intellect
To annoy Stanislavski
To make money
Because no other theatre existed
Verfremdungseffekt means
Making people happy
Creating an emotional distancing so an audience thinks about what is happening
Creating a realistic character so the audience feel empathy
Good acting
What is the alienation affect
Making the audience feel awkward and confused
Creating drama that includes aliens
An audience will connect to the play using their intellect instead of their emotions
Making an audience cry with sympathy for a character
Which 3 of these techniques would Brecht use
Tableu
Emotion memory
Song
Speaking in third person
What does the term multi-roling mean?
Rolling across the stage multiple times
When a female and male actor play the same role
When several actors play the same role
When an actor plays more than one character onstage
What epic theatre technique is defined as a style of acting that used gestures, facial expressions, and tone of voice to make a political point?
Verfremdung
Episodic structure
Political themes
Gestus
Which of these would Brecht use
Actor would sit with the audience
A narrator
No set or props on stage
Actors would come out of character on stage
Costume, set and props would resemble real life
