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Q: What is the difference between epic theatre and naturalism?
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What is epic theater?

Epic Theatre is a directing technique, it is used to try and get and idea or point across by using drama. Epic Theatre is a directing technique, it is used to try and get an idea or point across by using drama


The leading proponent of Epic Theatre in the 20th century was?

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Who are the expressionist theater practitioner's?

Some of these practitioners may be considered as having expressionist values in theatre: Bertolt Brecht 'Epic theatre' Antonin Artaud- 'Theatre of Cruelty' Grotowski 'Poor theatre' 'Lab Theatre'


What are the characteristics of epic theatre?

The Epic Theatre's main practitioner was Bertolt Brecht. The major characteristics are that the audience weren't actually audiences. They were more like spectators as they were not spoon fed, therefore majority of the epic theatre plays didn't give away everything. It let the audience think. They were permitted to eat, drink and smoke. The actors had to portray the character and not get into the "skin of the character". Thats a few. xxx


What Made Epic Theatre Effective?

Brecht did not believe in Stanislavski naturalism, he came up with the theory that if you come to see a play and pay for the play then that can never be Natural, so Epic theater was Brecht's way of theatre, what he wanted to achieve was to make the audience know it wasn't real that it was fiction. So Epic theatre was very humorous, which made it successful, Brecht could put one of the most despicable crimes such as murder, and make it comic by adding music or making character's puppets, it's what is known as "Jugsters position" , it also made people see different aspects of the scene so even though he/she has murdered someone, that person may think "Why is the judge got all the power" or "why is it fair that a hairdresser can pass judgment on a banker?" therefore it took of.. Hope i could of helped :D