From miscellaneous WWW sources
Bertolt Brecht 1898-1956
EPIC THEATRE
using
Verfremdungseffekt
(AKA the V-effect,
Making strange, Distancing, Alienation)
“The actor is not Lear
He shows Lear.”
Verfremdungseffekt:
through Fixing , Gest, Spass, and Multimedia
Brecht was against naturalistic theatre where the audience “hang up their brains
with their hats in the cloakroom.”
“The V-effect is to make the spectator adopt an attitude of inquiry and criticism
in his approach to the incident.
No attempt is made to put the stage (and the audience) in a trance.”