What are some Brechtian techniques?

What are some Brechtian techniques?

Brechtian techniques as a stimulus for devised work

• The narration needs to be told in a montage style.
• Techniques to break down the fourth wall, making the audience directly conscious of the fact that they are watching a play.
• Use of a narrator.
• Use of songs or music.
• Use of technology.
• Use of signs.

What are you doing drama game ideas?

Group stands in a circle. One person goes into the center of the circle and starts an action (such as brushing her teeth). A person goes into the center, and asks, “What are you doing?” The person brushing her teeth answers by saying something other than what she is doing.

How do you play splat?

The player standing in the middle of the circle is the “splatter”. The splatter randomly points to someone and shouts “SPLAT!” The player pointed to must duck down; then the two players on either side of the “ducker” must “splat” each other by pointing to the other and saying “SPLAT!”

What is a Brechtian style?

The Brechtian style of performance is a style of theater in which the audience is balanced between two modes of viewership. On the one hand the Brechtian style requires that the audience watch the show engaged emotionally, but not in the classic Aristotelian cathartic way.

What do you do in a drama workshop?

We’ve compiled 21 of our monologues with short monologue analysis on character and imaginary circumstances as it relates to the human condition.

• Drama Workshop Ideas for Teaching Drama.
• Character Building Exercises. True or False.
• Trust Building Exercises. Sleepwalker.
• Ensemble Building Exercises. Special Place.
• Acting Games.

How do you play the ribbon of sound?

One person starts a sound. The next person picks it up and it travels around the circle, so it becomes a ribbon of sound. Each person should pick it up and pass it on as quickly as possible. Transform it into another sound—with the person next to the one who started the first sound.