The Measures Taken

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The Measures Taken is a didactic play by German dramatist Bertolt Brecht that explores revolutionary ethics and collective responsibility through the lens of epic theatre.

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instanceOf didactic play
epic theatre work
play
alternateName Die Maßnahme
author Bertolt Brecht
collaborator Hanns Eisler
countryOfOrigin Germany
dramaticStyle epic theatre
dramaticTechnique Verfremdungseffekt
chorus
narration
songs
exploresConcept party discipline
self-criticism
subordination of individual to collective
violence in revolution
featuresCharacterType agitators
party functionaries
young comrade
firstPerformanceDate 1930
firstPerformancePlace Berlin
form play in scenes
genre didactic play
epic theatre
political theatre
hasForm Lehrstück
hasSubject revolutionary cell in a foreign country
influencedBy Leninist party doctrine
Marxist theory
intendedFunction didactic instruction
political education
mainTheme collective responsibility
communist revolution
moral ambiguity
revolutionary ethics
movement epic theatre
surface form: Brechtian theatre

epic theatre
surface form: epic theatre movement
musicBy Hanns Eisler
notableFeature direct address to audience
minimal psychological characterization
use of chorus as collective voice
originalLanguage German
period Weimar Republic
politicalContext Marxism
communism
revolutionary movement
setting Moscow
Soviet Union
structure prologue and scenes

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Bertolt Brecht notableWork The Measures Taken