Bertolt Brecht Quotes about Theatre

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Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.

Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.

Bertolt Brecht

Theatre, Habit, Audience

We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.

Bertolt Brecht

Feelings, Historical, Theatre

Bertolt Brecht, John Willett (1964). “Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic”