Street scene

A street scene (German: Straßenszene) is a basic model for epic theater set forth by Bertolt Brecht. It makes use of a simple, "natural" incident, such as could be seen on any street corner: an eyewitness demonstrating to a collection of people how a traffic accident took place. "The bystanders may not have observed what happened, or they may simply not agree with him, may 'see things a different way'; the point is that the demonstrator acts the behavior of driver or victim both in such a way that the bystanders are able to form an opinion about the incident."^[1] This model is set forth as the most primitive type of epic theater to be easily understood by the reader or listener.

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Bertolt Brecht

Dramatic
works

• Baal
• Drums in the Night
• A Wedding
• Driving Out a Devil
• Lux in Tenebris
• Mysteries of a Barbershop
• In the Jungle of Cities
• Edward II
• Man Equals Man
• Downfall of the Egotist Johann Fatzer
• The Elephant Calf
• Little Mahagonny
• The Threepenny Opera
• The Flight Across the Ocean
• The Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent
• Happy End
• Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
• Der Jasager / Der Neinsager
• The Decision
• Saint Joan of the Stockyards
• The Exception and the Rule
• The Mother
• Kuhle Wampe
• The Seven Deadly Sins
• Round Heads and Pointed Heads
• The Horatians and the Curiatians
• Fear and Misery of the Third Reich
• Señora Carrar's Rifles
• Life of Galileo
• How Much Is Your Iron?
• Dansen
• Mother Courage and Her Children
• The Trial of Lucullus
• Mr Puntila and His Man Matti
• The Good Person of Szechwan
• The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
• Hangmen Also Die!
• The Visions of Simone Machard
• The Duchess of Malfi
• Schweyk in the Second World War
• The Caucasian Chalk Circle
• Antigone
• The Days of the Commune
• The Tutor
• Die Verurteilung des Lukullus
• Report from Herrnburg
• Coriolanus
• The Trial of Joan of Arc at Rouen, 1431
• Turandot
• Don Juan
• Trumpets and Drums

Poems, songs

• "Reminiscence of Marie A."
• "Alabama Song"
• "Pirate Jenny"
• "What Keeps Mankind Alive?"
• "Solidaritätslied"
• "Einheitsfrontlied"
• "Kinderhymne"
• "Die Lösung"

Theories and
techniques

• Epic theatre
• Lehrstücke
• Non-Aristotelian drama

• Complex seeing
• Defamiliarization
• Demonstration
• Fabel
• Gestus
• Historicization
• Interruptions
• Not / But
• Refunctioning
• Separation of the elements

• Messingkauf Dialogues
• The Modern Theatre Is the Epic Theatre
• A Short Organum for the Theatre
• Street scene

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