In his essay "On Chinese Acting," this author theorized that looking at the audience without breaking the fourth wall generates a "distancing effect" between them and the stage.
In an essay, this author observed that inaccurate fairground reproductions of The Flight of Charles the Bold After the Battle of Murten conveyed a sense of looming catastrophe absent in the original painting. This author declared that every action or expression should be prefaced by a denial of other possibilities, offering as an example the sentence: "he was not pleased but amazed." He advocated a tripartite examination of plot, formal structure, and attitudes, as part of the fabel mode of analysis he proposed in "A Short Organum for the (*) Theater." In the 1930s, this author produced a number of didactic pieces to be performed in non-standard settings such as factories, which he called Lehrstücke, or "lesson plays." In his essay "On Chinese Acting," this author theorized that looking at the audience without breaking the fourth wall generates a "distancing effect" between them and the stage. For 10 points, name this German playwright who promoted a form of "epic theater" with plays such as Mother Courage and Her Children.
In an essay, this author observed that inaccurate fairground reproductions of The Flight of Charles the Bold
: Bertolt Brecht [or Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht]