Brecht’s Lehrstücke cycle

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Brecht’s Lehrstücke cycle is a series of experimental didactic plays by Bertolt Brecht designed to explore political and social ideas through participatory, instructional theatre.

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instanceOf didactic theatre
series of plays
theatre cycle
aim to explore political and social ideas
to teach through performance
to transform performers’ consciousness
alsoKnownAs Lehrstücke NERFINISHED
learning plays
associatedWith Weimar Republic NERFINISHED
left-wing theatre collectives
countryOfOrigin Germany
creator Bertolt Brecht NERFINISHED
educationalFunction collective experimentation in theatre
political education
genre didactic play
epic theatre
hasPart Das Badener Lehrstück vom Einverständnis NERFINISHED
Der Flug der Lindberghs NERFINISHED
Der Jasager NERFINISHED
Der Neinsager NERFINISHED
Der Ozeanflug NERFINISHED
Die Ausnahme und die Regel NERFINISHED
Die Maßnahme NERFINISHED
Heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe (sometimes classified as Lehrstück-related) NERFINISHED
influenced applied theatre
educational theatre
participatory theatre
political theatre
influencedBy Soviet revolutionary theatre
dialectical materialism
workers’ movement
intendedAudience performers as learners
politically engaged groups
language German
mainSubject class struggle
collective decision-making
didacticism in theatre
ethics of political action
politics
revolutionary politics
social relations
movement Marxism NERFINISHED
avant-garde theatre
modernism
period early 1930s
late 1920s
theatricalApproach instructional theatre
non-Aristotelian drama
participatory performance
theatricalDevice Verfremdungseffekt NERFINISHED

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The Decision partOf Brecht’s Lehrstücke cycle