philosophy and theatre an introduction

that message home. Nonetheless, the connection suggested here is pretty weak. Even Oedipus, one might suppose, could have done t ...

thought they might be useful.^41 I’ll begin with the ‘epic drama’.To begin with, recall that the terms‘epic’and‘dramatic’describ ...

are ultimately trying to get a certain point across–to explain what hap- pened, how and why. Sometimes it may help them to act o ...

in pain, then reminding me that the person I am seeing is not in fact in pain–that she is an actress, or a storyteller–might be ...

the audience–something that Brecht accepts, albeit in a qualified way. For that can’t be all there is to it: one of the truths c ...

technology. And if theatre doesn’t explore and represent those relations, then it risks becoming obsolete or irrelevant.^52 The ...

is precisely that his plays don’t offer much to stimulate critical thought and action in response to the problems presented. The ...

Theodor Adorno, for example, offers a cluster of criticisms of Brecht: that he is too simplistically utopian; that he is arrogan ...

essays [...] I told them a story I thought was well known, though they hadn’t heard it. Back in the early twenties, Brecht’s pla ...

philosophical thinking;andhe worked hard and experimented, trying to bring such a theatre about. This is an intoxicating mixture ...

12 This example was taken from Cartledge (1997), which contains many others related to tragedy. It’s clear that Greek comedy off ...

39 I am using Miller’s play by way of example. But Miller obviously had some contemporary political targets in mind when he wrot ...

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