His systems helped actors find their inner truth, he wanted actors to live on stage. ... Their work helped the departure of theatre from realism. ... Dadaism lad the foundations for Surrealism, a literary and art movement influenced by Freudianism and dedicated to the expression of imagination as revealed in dreams, free of the conscious control of reason and free of convention. ... His Epic Theatre" was in which narrative, montage, self-contained scenes, and rational argument were used to create a shock of realization in the spectator. ... He helped Brecht popularize Epic Theatre. ...

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