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Brecht’s theory was a mixture of description, prescription, polemic, and an attempt to bring his ideas on theatre into systematic relationship with Marxism. As such, it represents only an approximation to the way he actually practised theatre. This chapter will therefore describe in general terms the principal means by which he effected his ideas and certain aspects of his practice not fully provided for in his theory.
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Carl Weber, ‘Brecht as Director’, The Drama Review, vol. 12, no. 1 (1967), p. 103.
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Speirs, R. (1987). Brecht’s Practice of Theatre. In: Bertolt Brecht. Macmillan Modern Dramatists. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18656-3_4
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