Last Monday we were introduced to Brecht, we were given a script and had to perform the scene today, overall my impression of Brecht isn't good, I don't like many of his techniques, but I would use some of them, for example I would use song and dance, Multi-rolling, narration and breaking the fourth wall, I think these are all good techniques to use and can also look very clever. The main thing I don't like about Brecht is the fact he doesn't want his audience to have an emotional connection with his characters, I completely disagree with this because I think if someone is emotionally connected to a character its because they can relate to them and this makes a performance almost a bit more personal.
The script we got given was very dull and didn't really make any sense which was quite frustrating having to try and figure out what is going on when we were trying to perform it, a lot of the lines didn't really make sense either, but I think it wasn't originally written in English so it could just be the translation that is incorrect.
Overall I actually really hated Brecht, I would not like to do anything Brecht in the future as I found this to be dull and uninteresting and also I don't agree with his techniques so I didn't enjoy it at all.
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