Bertolt Brecht: Epic Theatre

"The dramatic theater's spectator says: Yes, I have felt like that too-- Just like me -- It's only natura -- It'll never changer -- The suffering of this man appall me, because they are inescapable. That's great art; it all seems the most obvious thing in the world-I weep when they weep, I laugh when they laugh"

"The epic theater's spectator says: I'd never have thought it -- That's not the way -- That's extraordinary, hardly believable -- they are unnecessary -- that's great art; nothing obvious in it -- I laugh when they weep, I weep when they laugh."

• Breaking down of the fourth wall
• actor - audience
• connection
• conversation
• interaction
• Poster boards/panels/projections (announcing)/narrator/placards or signs "telling", "underlining", "framing" the scene:
• where 
• who 
• what

Today:

• video
• live streaming
• actor asking advice from the audience
• projection, angles, backdrop
• actors within the audience
• use of the "house" for stage effects
• mics
• bringing an audience member into the play
• minimalism - Dogville
• only using what you really need