The strongest influence on theatre practitioners within the last 50 years or more has been that of Bertold Brecht (1898 - 1956) who believed that drama of the time was too passive. Comfortable in their position in the warm dark theatres, the "responsibility" of the audience was to watch the scenes u...
Bertolt Brecht was born in Augsburg in 1898. His father, a Catholic, was a director of a paper company and his mother, a Protestant, was the daughter of a civil servant. Brecht began to write poetry as a boy, and had his first poems published in 1914 at the age of 16. In 1917 Brecht enrolled as a m...
The Life and Works of Bertolt Brecht Bertolt Brecht was one of the chief innovators of modern theatrical techniques. He was both a poet and a playwright all in one. His epic theatrical creations developed drama as a forum for social and idealistic causes. Brecht's imagination, artistic geni...
