From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government's confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
“In my poetry a rhyme Would seem to me almost insolent. Inside me contend Delight at the apple tree in blossom And horror at… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
“The law was made for one thing alone,for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
