quotes about Brecht
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[Bertholt] Brecht looked very thin, like a herring with very sensitive hands.
-- Lotte Lenya -
The dilemma of Brechtian performance is that, for all of Brecht's emphasis on rationality and the undermining of theatrical illusion, the actor must convincingly portray something that she is not.
-- Philip AuslanderSource : Philip Auslander (2002). “From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism”, p.33, Routledge