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Margaret and Marie, despite posing as friends, actually conflict throughout the play, primarily due to their personality differences: I would want to use this scene (the first time they are seen together)...

I would use a combination of posture, expression and movement. To convey the character's uncertainty about the potential dangers, sudden swivels of the head may be used to suggest the acknowledgment of an...

Brecht was one of the pioneers of the "Political Theatre" which was a way to criticize modern political happenings through theatrical plays. Brecht believed the best way to get the audience to q...

Mainstream, popular theatre in our culture today mainly perscribes to a naturalistic style - aiming to refelct real life back to the audience. An audience may expect to enter a theatre space which is very...

Verfremdungseffekt is the German word for 'alienating the audience'. Bertolt Brecht used the technique of verfremdungseffekt in all of his plays since he believed that the audience would better u...