Crash Course Theater and Drama - Season 1 Episode 44 Bertolt Brecht and Epic Theater
Are you ready to learn something about the world? Then you're ready for Bertolt Brecht, and his ideas about Epic Theater. Brecht wanted to lean into the idea of theater as a tool to upset and educate the world about stuff like the struggles of the working class and the problematic aspects of capitalism. He wanted to SHOCK people into seeing the world as it is and taking action, rather than merely entertain audiences. But, he messed up, and wrote some pretty entertaining stories, with some really catchy music integrated into it. And do, people ended up whistling Mack the Knife instead of throwing off the shackles of an oppressive social order. To be fair, it is a catchy tune. Today you're going to learn about Brecht, Epic Theater, and a little bit about the House UnAmerican Activities Committee. Because those jerks hauled Brecht up in 1948 to shake him down about whether or not he was a communist.
Year: 2019
Genre: Documentary
Country: United States of America
Studio: YouTube
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Cast: Mike Rugnetta
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First Air Date: Feb 09, 2018
Last Air date: Mar 01, 2019
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 50 Episode
Runtime: 13 minutes
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Popularity: 3.731
Language: English
Keyword : drama club
Episode
What Is Theater?
Thespis, Athens, and The Origins of Greek Drama
Tragedy Lessons from Aristotle
Greek Comedy, Satyrs, and Aristophanes
Dances to Flute Music and Obscene Verse. It's Roman Theater, Everybody
Roman Theater with Plautus, Terence, and Seneca
Nostrils, Harmony with the Universe, and Ancient Sanskrit Theater
The Death and Resurrection of Theater as...Liturgical Drama
Hrotsvitha, Hildegard, and the Nun who Resurrected Theater
Get Outside and Have a (Mystery) Play
Just Say Noh. But Also Say Kyogen
Pee Jokes, the Italian Renaissance, Commedia Dell'Arte
The English Renaissance and NOT Shakespeare
Straight Outta Stratford-Upon-Avon - Shakespeare's Early Days
Shakespeare's Tragedies and an Acting Lesson
Comedies, Romances, and Shakespeare's Heroines
English Theater After Shakespeare
Where Did Theater Go?
The Spanish Golden Age
Rules, Rule-Breaking, and French Neoclassicism
Moliere - Man of Satire and Many Burials
Pre-Columbian Theater, Spanish Empire, and Sor Juana
Japan, Kabuki, and Bunraku
All Night Demon Dance Party - Kathakali
China, Zaju, and Beijing Opera
England's Sentimental Theater
Why So Angry, German Theater?
The Rise of Melodrama
North America Gets a Theater...Riot
Race Melodrama and Minstrel Shows
Zola, France, Realism, and Naturalism
Realism Gets Even More Real
Symbolism, Realism, and a Nordic Playwright Grudge Match
Chekhov and the Moscow Art Theater
The Horrors of the Grand Guignol
Synge, Wilde, Shaw, and the Irish Renaissance
Dada, Surrealism, and Symbolism
Expressionist Theater
Futurism and Constructivism
Little Theater and American Avant Garde
The Harlem Renaissance
Federal Theatre and Group Theater
Antonin Artaud and the Theater of Cruelty
Bertolt Brecht and Epic Theater
Beckett, Ionesco, and the Theater of the Absurd
Broadway, Seriously
The Birth of Off Broadway
Poor Unfortunate Theater
Into Africa and Wole Soyinka
Broadway Book Musicals