Conventions
The sense of a combination of physical gestures and "gist" or attitude. Gesturing at a character, rather than becoming them.
What is Gestus?
The style of Drama that Brecht and his political theatre contemporaries wanted to break away from.
What is Realism?
What is Verbatim Theatre?
A long-term change in the average weather patterns that have come to define Earth's local, regional and global climates.
What is climate change?
The author of Top Girls.
Who is Caryl Churchill?
A type of play from which the audience is supposed to learn something.
What is didactism?
The birthplace of Bertolt Brecht.
What is Germany?
Brecht's most famous political theatre play, set in the midst of the thirty years war.
What is 'Mother Courage and Her Children'?
The advocacy of women's rights on the basis of equality between sexes.
What is feminsim?
The forefather of Epic Theatre.
Who is Bertolt Brecht?
The use of signs and backdrops containing words and symbols.
What is placards?
A single actor or group of actors that tell the story outside of the direct, dramatic action.
What is Narration?
An allegorical story about the Salem Witch Trials, written by Arthur Miller in 1953.
What is 'The Crucible'?
The discrimination of a person or persons based on their birthplace, ethnicity or skin colour.
What is racism?
The Brazilian theatremaker and writer who first devised the concept of “Theatre of the Oppressed”
Who is Augusto Boal?
The technique of setting the action of a play in the past to draw parallels with contemporary events.
What is historification?
The german term that Brecht gave to his plays in which audiences were supposed to learn.
What is a 'lehrstuck'?
This book is based on the novel by George Orwell and uses animals staging a revolution against the owner of their farm as an allegory for other revolutions and political corruption.
What is Animal Farm?
The deliberate silencing of particular voices in discourse, to control representations of particular issues in society.
What is Censorship?
A french playwright, director and actor whose theories had a lasting impact on theatre, despite his lifelong addiction to opium.
Who is Antonin Artaud?
What is the Verfremsdungseffekt?
The commission that Brecht appeared before in America, which was hunting for communists.
A three-page play written by Antonin Artaud which features the hand of God being bitten by a prostitute.
What is 'Jet of Blood'?
A political system based on collective, common, or public ownership of the means of production.
What is socialism?
Australian First Nations woman who wrote plays like “Black is the New White”, satirical comedies that skewer traditional comedy structures to deconstruct racial relationships
Who is Nikkiah Lui?