Brecht and didacticism!!! (1 Viewer)

[Drama Gal]

Hello everyone ... hope everyone has enjoyed starting the group project ... I know I have!

Just something I am still trying to work out myself. I described Brecht's theatre as being didactic in my half yearly, but my teacher said that was wrong. So now I am really confused

Can any Brecht experts out there help me clarify this ...

 

[Meldrum]

I thought it was, too...

Although, your teacher might be trying to get you on a technicality. Fair enough, it's didactic in nature but Brecht never actually says "THIS IS WHAT YOU SHOULD THINK". Fair enough, he may subjectively position you, but he never actually tells you what to think. He relies on your own emotions to make your judgements.

 

[Drama Gal]

Yeah I plan on saying something like ... his theatre is didactic in that it has does teach the audience, but all it teaches them is that the world is not a perfect place and by using historification he reminds us that there were things wrong in the past and we could learn from these.

I guess true didactic plays give us the answers, like a education theatre piece ...