Sentence examples for Brechtian acting from inspiring English sources
Despite the many resemblances between art films and pornographic films—jump cuts, long takes, "Brechtian" acting, a cinema vérité-like grittiness, arousal of strong emotions, an exploration of the extremes of human experience and of the margins of society they argue that market forces are mainly to be blamed for the lack of overlap between the two.
If I call this a classic Brechtian piece of acting, it is not just because the play is German and written in 10 discrete scenes: it is because we are invited to enjoy the conscious element of performance.
But there are deeper reasons for going against the Brechtian tradition of singing actors rather than acting singers.
The acting periodically descends into un-Brechtian ranting (though not from Stephen Kennedy as the Chaplain and Martin Marquez as the Cook).
Brecht quickly retrained him - he had attended the local Magdeburg acting school - and Schall internalised the theory of alienation and learned how to identify the Brechtian gestus, or characteristic physical attitude, which contained the key to a character, and how to demonstrate, rather than inhabit, his roles, to avoid empathy.
