Sorry it took me so long to get these up everyone!
Slide Show #3
and there are more added to the previous slideshows as well. If you've already looked at these then just click to the back of the line and start there.
Slide Show #1
Slide Show #2
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Sunday, May 17, 2009
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Rehearsal Photos
Hello Once Again!
Here are links to rehearsal photos.
Warning for a spoiler alert. Only look if you don't mind seeing things before watching the show!
Slide Show 1
Slide Show 2
Here are links to rehearsal photos.
Warning for a spoiler alert. Only look if you don't mind seeing things before watching the show!
Slide Show 1
Slide Show 2
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
The Use of Song
Brecht not only wrote, directed and produced plays, but created poetry as well. He wrote songs and poems for almost all of his productions, mostly in collaboration with Kurt Weill. If you are a musical theatre lover you know that music is used when words are not simply enough to express emotion or feeling. Brecht used the songs within his plays as a way of de-familiarizing the audience, when words alone would not do so. Songs spring up out of the blue as a way of making audience members pay attention to particularly important subject matter or perhaps even subject matter that is so commonplace, that the only way to think of it in a new way is to do so through song.
"For example, in Mother Courage and Her Children; the songs' content may be serious and forewarning of hardships, while the music is happy and light. It shows a lighter side to a deeply serious situation. The dichotomy and ambiguity of it ultimately shows the audience a new way to understand the subject matter and makes them question the social realities that are being presented."
The Drama Review 43.4 (1999) 77-85. Copyright © 1999 New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The goal of using these songs and poems is to shed light upon the norms of social construct within theatre, which will in turn lead to audience to then see the same social framework in the world around them. In Brecht's opinion, this framework was not immovable and permanent but could instead be built by individual people, similar to the world within a play is created. Once a person can see the ever changing nature of society as a whole, they are able to see the ways in which they can change that world to make it better.
"For example, in Mother Courage and Her Children; the songs' content may be serious and forewarning of hardships, while the music is happy and light. It shows a lighter side to a deeply serious situation. The dichotomy and ambiguity of it ultimately shows the audience a new way to understand the subject matter and makes them question the social realities that are being presented."
The Drama Review 43.4 (1999) 77-85. Copyright © 1999 New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The goal of using these songs and poems is to shed light upon the norms of social construct within theatre, which will in turn lead to audience to then see the same social framework in the world around them. In Brecht's opinion, this framework was not immovable and permanent but could instead be built by individual people, similar to the world within a play is created. Once a person can see the ever changing nature of society as a whole, they are able to see the ways in which they can change that world to make it better.
Sources:
The Drama Review 43.4 (1999) 77-85. Copyright © 1999 New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
DJ Hopkins
Terms of Interest
Epic Theatre:
A form of didactic theatre intended to provoke rational thought rather than to create illusion through loosely connected scenes which are interrupted by alienating or distancing effects to block the emotional responses of the audience members and force them to think objectively about the play. This form of theatre is most often associated with Bertolt Brecht but can also be traced back in roots to German playwright Frank Wedekind, and the German directors Erwin Piscator and Leopold Jessner.
Socialism:
In Marxist theory, the stage of social organization following Capitalism in a society's journey into the inevitable stage of Communism. This theory advocates the vesting of ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., to the community as a whole.
Marxism:
The system of economic and political thought developed by Karl Marx, along with Friedrich Engels, stating that throughout history has been a device for the exploitation of the masses by a dominant class, that class struggle has been the main agency of historical change, and that the capitalist system, containing from the first the seeds of its own decay, will inevitably, after the period of the dictatorship of the proletariat, be superseded by a socialist order before finally manifesting as a classless society.
Didacticism:
The instruction or teaching of a moral lesson. Brecht's plays are often didactic and use contradictions within the characters themselves to showcase a specific point. The term is often used to describe a text which is over-ridden with moral instruction, and can also be used to describe something which is destructive rather than informative.
Dialecticism:
The belief that everything has two sides, and that the way to truth and social peace is through the exploration of values belonging both sides of the social ladder.
Economic Determinism:
The idea that economic structure and changes determine social differentiation and class conflict and therefor shape history. Economic determinism can be translated into man's effort to survive, and succeed.
Sources:
www.Reference.com
www.dictionary.com
www.britannica.com
A form of didactic theatre intended to provoke rational thought rather than to create illusion through loosely connected scenes which are interrupted by alienating or distancing effects to block the emotional responses of the audience members and force them to think objectively about the play. This form of theatre is most often associated with Bertolt Brecht but can also be traced back in roots to German playwright Frank Wedekind, and the German directors Erwin Piscator and Leopold Jessner.
Socialism:
In Marxist theory, the stage of social organization following Capitalism in a society's journey into the inevitable stage of Communism. This theory advocates the vesting of ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., to the community as a whole.
Marxism:
The system of economic and political thought developed by Karl Marx, along with Friedrich Engels, stating that throughout history has been a device for the exploitation of the masses by a dominant class, that class struggle has been the main agency of historical change, and that the capitalist system, containing from the first the seeds of its own decay, will inevitably, after the period of the dictatorship of the proletariat, be superseded by a socialist order before finally manifesting as a classless society.
Didacticism:
The instruction or teaching of a moral lesson. Brecht's plays are often didactic and use contradictions within the characters themselves to showcase a specific point. The term is often used to describe a text which is over-ridden with moral instruction, and can also be used to describe something which is destructive rather than informative.
Dialecticism:
The belief that everything has two sides, and that the way to truth and social peace is through the exploration of values belonging both sides of the social ladder.
Economic Determinism:
The idea that economic structure and changes determine social differentiation and class conflict and therefor shape history. Economic determinism can be translated into man's effort to survive, and succeed.
Sources:
www.Reference.com
www.dictionary.com
www.britannica.com
Answers to The Polls!
Hello!
The answers to the polls were as follows:
Bertolt Brecht was born on Feb 19th 1898.
His first play to be produced was entitled Bael.
Look for more polls coming soon!
Alicia-Marie
The answers to the polls were as follows:
Bertolt Brecht was born on Feb 19th 1898.
His first play to be produced was entitled Bael.
Look for more polls coming soon!
Alicia-Marie
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