mbongeni and Percy were influenced by grotowski's poor Theatre. explain 2 poor theater techniques in source b
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Post-World War II theatre
Efforts to rebuild the cultural fabric of civilization after the devastation of World War II led to a rethinking of the role of theatre in the new society. Competing with the technical refinements of motion pictures, radio, and television (all of which were offering drama), the live theatre had to rediscover what it could give to the community that the mass media could not. In one direction, this led to a search for a “popular” theatre that would embrace the whole community, just as the Greek theatre and the Elizabethan theatre had done. In another, it brought to fruition a new wave of experiments that had started before the war—experiments that sought more radically than ever to challenge the audience, breaking down the barriers between spectators and performers.
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Avant-garde experiments
The epic theatre of Brecht
Although Bertolt Brecht wrote his first plays in Germany during the 1920s, he was not widely known until much later. Eventually his theories of stage presentation exerted more influence on the course of mid-century theatre in the West than did those of any other individual. This was largely because he proposed the major alternative to the Stanislavsky-oriented realism that dominated acting and the “well-made play” construction that dominated playwriting.
Brecht’s earliest work was heavily influenced by German Expressionism, but it was his preoccupation with Marxism and the idea that man and society could be intellectually analyzed that led him to develop his theory of “epic theatre.”