Whilst watching the other presentations, we came to a discussion centred around the question 'would you rather watch a Brecht play or be in a Brecht play'; my response to this was I'd rather be in a Brecht play because if I was watching it, I'd get quite bored because I wouldn't understand what is going on because Brecht's style of dialogue is very jumbled and hard to understand because of his lack of emotion inducted in the scenes and dialogue which takes away the emotional attachment of the characters to focus on the message he tries to convey with the play, and I as an audience prefer to have some sort of emotional attachment to a character or characters to be able to be more interested in the performance. If I was in the play, I can pick the play apart and analyse it and fully understand it - both the story and the characters - and thus becomes more enjoyable for me. For example, when we started Mother Courage, I really didn't like it because I couldn't understand it at all, but once we started to analyse it and take it apart, I began to take a liking to it.
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