Brechtian stage
narration: used to remind the audience that they are watching a play. sometimes the narrator will tell the audience what will happen in the next scene and it makes the audience less emotionally attached to the play so they focus on the story and ideas in the scene.coming out of role: another way of stopping the audience from being emotionally involved, a
character talking about themselves in the third person this counts as breaking character, speaking to the audience directly, being in the scene then stepping out of it.
using notes or signs, video, projection etc can be facts he loved contradiction if what your acting is different to the signs and facts put up. playing with levels of reality actors trying to break the 4th way.
"Theatre should not be a mirror to life it should be a hammer forged to shape it"
He didn't believe in the suggested background of the character they change with peoples circumstances
he didn't want to compete with cinema, he believed that we should be able to shape life into the way we want it.
Brecht's plays can including:
split roles
multi-gender roles: taking a bigger leap of imagination
anything that makes the audience notice that the actors changed helps to emotionally detach them
minimal props, set and costume
Brecht did believe in having realistic and truthful props should look authentic, the costume should look like the real thing so if you're wearing a jacket that's meant to be soldiers, it should be muddy and feel like the real thing.
The more theatrical the better
An key thing in Brecht's stage is lighting so the lights would be left on or bright lights as it illuminated the facts/truths, the lighting is either the same throughout or its bright white lighting.
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