"Epic Theater" was popularized in Germany after World War I mostly by Bertolt Bercht . Epic theater was mostly influenced by the horror of World War I's human cost, by the suffering of the middle and lower class during post war recession of the 1920's, and the Great Depression of the 1930's.
The form of theater was meant to teach their audience to criticize the injustices and inequalities of modern life. In Epic theater the audience was not actually the audience but spectators. The two main techniques of "Epic theater" was the notion of "theatrical-ism", and the concept of the "distancing" or "alienation" effect. Til this day people are still performing epic theater or a form of epic theater.
Epic theater is kind of like what we call sattire today. Sattire is made in television shows and news articles and talks about social and government issues, injustice, and things of that nature. Even though Sattire is depicted as humorous, it is social criticism.
(Alexus Horton)
The form of theater was meant to teach their audience to criticize the injustices and inequalities of modern life. In Epic theater the audience was not actually the audience but spectators. The two main techniques of "Epic theater" was the notion of "theatrical-ism", and the concept of the "distancing" or "alienation" effect. Til this day people are still performing epic theater or a form of epic theater.
Epic theater is kind of like what we call sattire today. Sattire is made in television shows and news articles and talks about social and government issues, injustice, and things of that nature. Even though Sattire is depicted as humorous, it is social criticism.
(Alexus Horton)