on+Brecht

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht

Our [|theater] must stimulate a [|desire] for [|understanding], a [|delight] in [|changing] [|reality]. Our audience must [|experience] not only the ways to free [|Prometheus], but be schooled in the very desire to free him.

Let nothing be called natural. In an age of bloody confusion, ordered disorder, planned caprice, and dehumanized humanity, lest all things be held unalterable!

“People who understand everything get no stories.”

“The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher's knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs.... Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.”

“Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably. The Singer, in The Caucasian Chalk Circle, prologue (1944).”

“For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables. Methods become exhausted; stimuli no longer work. New problems appear and demand new methods. Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.”

“Every time you name yourself, you name someone else.” (on microattribution)

“In the dark times will there be singing? Yes. There will be singing about the dark times.”

“Character is a question of time. It lasts for a certain length of time, just like a glove. There are good ones that last a long time. But they don't last forever.” ( [|Fear and Misery of the Third Reich] )

“When the houses of the great collapse Many little people are slain. Those who have no share in the fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes. The plunging wain Drags the sweating beasts with it into the abyss.” ([|The Caucasian Chalk Circle] )

“All the world says: yes we know what’s written in the books but now let’s see what our eyes tell us.” (A Life of Galileo)

Debates accomplish what Brecht calls a "distancing effect"?  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distancing_effect

<span style="font-family: Merriweather,Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">PECE breaks the "fourth wall" of theatre <span style="font-family: Merriweather,Georgia,serif;"> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_wall <span style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather,Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">BBC on Brecht: <span style="font-family: Merriweather,Georgia,serif;"> http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/guides/zwmvd2p/revision/3 <span style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather,Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">The Drama Teacher on Brecht: <span style="font-family: Merriweather,Georgia,serif;"> http://www.thedramateacher.com/epic-theatre-conventions/ <span style="color: #181818; display: block; font-family: Lato,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather,Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">Film about Brecht's last days (and the women in his life): <span style="font-family: Merriweather,Georgia,serif;"> http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2002-07-19/entertainment/0207190263_1_bertolt-brecht-berliner-ensemble-helene

The FBI files on Brecht may be read online at: [] in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act.