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How would you, from a Brechtian perspective, prepare and direct the actors in the last two scenes of “Mother Courage and Her Children”?
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How would you, from a Brechtian perspective, prepare and direct the actors in the last two scenes of "Mother Courage and Her Children"? Even more than most of Bertolt Brecht's plays, "Mother Courage and Her Children" has irony at its centre. Its central events are heartrending: a mother loses all three of her children, and her own chances for a decent life, in violent and even sadistic ways, and continues staggering onward, surviving by her wits and her sheer will. And yet, Brecht wanted his plays to be performed in such a way that the audience would not be seduced into caring for or identifying with the characters. He wrote them so that in their very structure, they would continually remind the audience that they were just actors and that the integral part of the production is not the story, but the meaning behind it. With their rush of disconnected scenes,...
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