Rational, calm detachment,
“The Brechtian style of
acting is acting in quotation marks”
The actor should not
impersonate, but narrate actions of another person, as if quoting facial
gesture and movement.
As the audience is not
allowed to identify with any character, the actors is not to identify with them
either.
Brecht agrees with
Stanislavsky that, if the actor believes he is the character, the audience will
also believe it, and share his emotions. But, unlike Stanislavsky, he does not
wish this to happen.
Rather than live or ‘be’
the character, an actor must show and portray them – become a representation of
that person.
In rehearsals, Brecht
advised actors to speak in the third person, the past tense and even say their
stage directions in order to help this.
The play is cemented as
not being real and the focus moves back to the message.
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