To browse Academia. Bertolt Brecht in Context. Series: Literature in Context, ed. ISBN , Although Brecht is best known for his dramas, poems and songs, he also made a significant contribution to modernist prose. Brecht's fiction offers a fascinating blend of political satire and philosophical humor, and it is well worth reading today. But while affinities with Brechtian ideals and practice may certainly be seen to exist both in dramaturgy and in audience reception, the characteristic activity of African audiences is typically in complex and uneasy tension with the " Brechtian " impulse.
The essay examines how audiences' ingrained ethical opinion may affect interpretation in ways that seem quite un-Brechtian, illustrating its argument from a Nigerian university production of The Good Person of Szechwan. Following the instruction: Focusing on ONE practitioner or theatre company of your choice, critically analyse how their work conformed to, developed or departed from modernism, postmodernism, or the twentieth-century avant-gardes.
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