„DESPRE O DRAMATURGIE NONARISTOTELICĂ”: TEATRUL EPIC

Abstract

Epic theatre, whose main representative and theoretician is B. Brecht, considered in constructive polemic with tradition, is a part of the drama modernization process of the first half of the 20th century. It is an experimental theatre because it explores new ways of communicating the message and influencing the audience, a theatre of ideas because it turns the show into an opportunity for dialogue with the audience, contrasting the spectator with the action on the stage, offering him the role of an observer who watches the action totally, having more possibilities to analyse and appreciate it. The distancing effect between the stage and the spectator allows the latter to maintain lucidity in order to develop himself a polemical attitude towards situations and characters, to demystify the stage as a substitute for reality. Epic theatre has not lost its relevance even today, because freedom of thought and expression, polemical and researching spirit, tendency to surpass the canons, not to isolate oneself in imposed paradigms, to evolve on the way of overcoming limits, permanent research of new ways of knowing, are conditions that ensure personal as well as community development.