15-08-2019
Bertolt Brecht, born on February 10, 1898 and died on August 14, 1956, was a German playwright and poet, one of the most influential of the twentieth century, creator of the so-called Epic Theater. The Brechtian theater was created for an intellectual audience; He did not write entertaining stories that involved the viewer, nor was it his intention. In fact, he sought the distancing or alienation of the spectator - and even the actor - with respect to the character. It is, therefore, a theater of difficult access, which is necessary to put in its literary and historical context. Brecht's gaze is hard, deeply pessimistic - that led him to have problems with the alleged real socialism. In addition, he conceived the theater as an instrument to transform the world, which printed a marked didactic character to his works: something that can be annoying for the less militant theater fan.
