Brecht workshop! The three Little Pigs!

Who is he?

Brecht is a famous practicner which helped create "Epic" theatre. Epic is short for Episodic, this is a type of theatre were lots of small scenes are linked together. Brecht tend to use. Brecht idea of theatre was to not get emotionally attached to the characters he did this by  muddling up the beginning middle and ending. Every show directed by Brecht had a message to people instated. Brecht commonly used narration so the audience can understand what is happening. He also used  3rd person Narration which would remind the audience this is a theatre show. He  encouraged to directly address the audience which would help Brecht send his message across. Brecht introduced Placards which would remind the audience what's happening but it wouldn't reveal anything about the character.

Three little pigs!

We got put into groups: Charlie, me, Ashley and Dan (Ashley and Dan are from year 13!) and the other group: Rhiannon, Lewis, Lorna and both Ollie's. Our task was to do a short fairy-tale story we chose three little pigs. Whilst we was making our scene Miss was adding on what we had to put in it:

Narration, 3rd person Narration, Movement bit, Placards, Music and to muddle up the whole order of the scenes. This became a really funny bit of theatre as every time the house got blown down we had to do an over exaggerated movement piece. We also had placards for every time the house got blown down. Ashley's was "Oh My god!" Mine was "nooooooooo" and Charlie's was "Anti-Climax much?" as the wolf couldn't blow down his brick house.

I found this really fun and informative, I will defiantly use Brecht style thatre for one of my Devised pieces!