Commentaires sur : Têtes rondes et têtes pointues http://eborja.unblog.fr Kultur-Almanach von Christa Blenk Wed, 24 Jul 2019 13:13:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.5 Par : amateur http://eborja.unblog.fr/musique-et-theatre/tetes-rondes-et-tetes-pointues/comment-page-1/#comment-166 Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:05:59 +0000 http://eborja.unblog.fr/tetes-rondes-et-tetes-pointues/#comment-166 Thank you very much: Roundheads and Peakheads (Rich and Rich).
I do not know this piece but I am very sorry that I missed it: It sounds like great fun at a very interesting place.
Brecht was a great innovator and theatrical reformer. In his concept of the “epic theatre” ideas and didactic lessons are important. He invented the “Verfremdungseffekt” (distancing effect), in which the audience is distanced emotionally from the play’s events.

I would like to share with you and the other readers the following:

« In order to produce alienation effects the actor has to discard whatever means he has learned of persuading the audience to identify itself with the characters which he plays. Aiming not to put his audience into a trance, he must not go into a trance himself. His muscles must remain loose, for a turn of the head, e.g., with tautened neck muscles, will « magically » lead the spectators’ eyes and even their heads to turn with it, and this can only detract from any speculation or reaction which the gestures may bring about. His way of speaking has to be free from ecclesiastical singsong and from all those cadences which lull the spectator so that the sense gets lost. » (from A Short Organum for the Theatre, 1948)

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