Bertolt Brecht's The Mother Visual, Aural and Spatial.
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Bertolt Brecht's The Mother Visual, Aural and Spatial. By Mark Costa On our selected scene for The Mother we used many different systems of Epic Theatre such as Gestus, half-curtain and music in order to produce alienation that the audience would not feel on a play such as 'Sexual Perversity in Chicago'. For our scene we needed to show the way in which the message of the revolution was passed on through the workers. To do this we used a rolled up cloth that represented a Gherkin rolled inside a leaflet that advertised the revolution. We then had the cloth rolled out between the workers, to represent the message of the revolution being passed across the workers instead of actually having prop leaflets. The colour of the end of the cloth itself was red which represented the revolution, as it was the colour of the communist flag. The environment of the...

