From his later perspective, the term " Epic Theatre " had become too formal a concept to be of use anymore ; one of Brecht's most-important aesthetic innovations prioritized function over the sterile opposition between form and content.

According to Manfred Wekwerth, one of Brecht's directors at the Berliner Ensemble at the time, the term refers to the "' dialecticizing ' of events " that his theatre produces.

In addition, according to some accounts Shklovsky's Russian friend playwright Sergei Tretyakov taught Brecht Shklovsky's term during Brecht's visit to Moscow in the spring of 1935.

Taking a lead from Brecht's twin attack on bourgeois and socialist humanism, Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser coined the term " antihumanism " in an attack against Marxist humanists, whose position he considered a revisionist movement.

In Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, a play is staged as a parable to villagers in the Soviet Union to justify the re-allocation of their farmland: the tale describes how a child is awarded to a servant-girl rather than its natural mother, an aristocrat, as the woman most likely to care for it well.

The Mother is Brecht's most elaborate use of his radically experimental Lehrstücke, or ' learning plays ,' which he describes as " a piece of anti-metaphysical, materialistic, non-Aristotelian drama.

Many commentators, including Syberberg himself, have characterized his work as a cinematic combination of Bertolt Brecht's doctrine of epic theatre and Richard Wagner's operatic aesthetics.

While the French playwright Jean Genet articulates a very different world view in his dramas to that found in Brecht's, in a letter to the director Roger Blin on the most appropriate approach to staging his The Screens in 1966, he advises an epic approach to its production:

Dramatically it is in keeping with Brecht's Epic style of theatre.

Brecht's one-act play The Elephant Calf ( 1926 ) is a play-within-a-play performed in the foyer of the theatre during his Man Equals Man.

Writers and techniques frequently mentioned in relation to the Theatre of the Absurd include the 19th-century nonsense poets, such as Lewis Carroll or Edward Lear ; Polish playwright Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz ; the Russians Daniil Kharms, Nikolai Erdman, and others ; Bertolt Brecht's distancing techniques in his " Epic theatre "; and the " dream plays " of August Strindberg.

Her early work developed Brecht's modernist dramatic and theatrical techniques of ‘ Epic theatre ’ to explore issues around gender and sexuality.

In August, 2006, Campino starred as Mack the Knife in Brecht's The Threepenny Opera at Berlin's Admiralspalast, a short distance from the theatre where the play premiered in 1928.

Pravachakante Maranam, ( 1993 ) includes an early piece on the absurd ( 1972 ), an essay on Bertolt Brecht's theatre, an introduction to Brecht's Threepenny Novel, a study of Ambikasuthan Mangad's story and an essay on the politics of deconstruction.

CHAC was acknowledged as producing some of the most exciting theatre in Seattle: from Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui and Clifford Odets ' Waiting for Lefty to the Pacific Northwest premiere of Dario Fo's Archangels Don't Play Pinball.

" German theater has lost its queen ," said Claus Peymann of the Berliner Ensemble, whose theatre featured Hoppe's last performance, in Bertolt Brecht's Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, in December 1997.

Shaban was nominated Best Actor in Scottish theatre in 2005, by the Critics ' Awards for Theatre in Scotland ( CATS ), for his role as Mack the Knife in Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera, a Theatre Workshop ( Edinburgh ) production.

It was only with the foundation of the Berliner Ensemble in the German Democratic Republic in 1949 that the brilliance of Brecht's theatre began to be recognised worldwide.

Never achieving the popularity of Weill and Brecht's The Threepenny Opera, Mahagonny is still considered a work of stature with a haunting score.

In the 20th century, one of the most influential plays, Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's ( 1928 ) The Threepenny Opera was a reworking of The Beggar's Opera, setting a similar story with the same characters, and containing much of the same satirical bite, but only using one tune from the original.

Bowie was given the lead role in the BBC's 1981 televised adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's play Baal.

Coinciding with its transmission, a five-track EP of songs from the play, recorded earlier in Berlin, was released as David Bowie in Bertolt Brecht's Baal.

Brandauer had resisted questions about how his production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's classic musical comedy about the criminal MacHeath would differ from earlier versions, and his production featured Mack the Knife in a three-piece suit and white gloves, stuck to Brecht's text, and avoided any references to contemporary politics or issues.

After completing Evening Primrose, Jerome Robbins had tried to convince Sondheim to adapt Bertolt Brecht's The Measures Taken, but Sondheim admitted that he did not like the play and did not like a lot of his work.

* September 9 – Bertolt Brecht's play Life of Galileo () receives its first theatrical production at the Zurich Schauspielhaus.

* April 19 – Bertolt Brecht's anti-war play Mother Courage and Her Children () receives its first theatrical production at the Schauspielhaus Zürich.

** The premiere of Bertolt Brecht's play In the Jungle ( Im Dickicht ) at the Residenztheater in Munich is interrupted by Nazi demonstrators.

His performance in Michael Blakemore's stage production of Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui in the late 1960s met with critical acclaim.

In 1969 he premiered in the UK in the title role of Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.

In the U. S., Laughton worked with Bertolt Brecht on a new English version of Brecht's play Galileo.

In the late 1920s, the young and short () actor moved to Berlin, where he worked with German playwright Bertolt Brecht, including a role in Brecht's Mann ist Mann and as Dr. Nakamura in the musical Happy End ( music by composer Kurt Weill ), alongside Brecht's wife Helene Weigel and co-stars Carola Neher, Oskar Homolka and Kurt Gerron.

Event scores, such as George Brecht's " Drip Music ", are essentially performance art scripts that are usually only a few lines long and consist of descriptions of actions to be performed rather than dialogue.

One of Littlewood's most famous productions was the British première of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children ( 1955 ), which she directed and also starred in the lead role.

* December 10-First performance of Bertolt Brecht's play The Decision, with music by Hanns Eisler.

The play, inspired by Bertolt Brecht's Baal, centers on the life of a dissolute songwriter in 1990s New York.

Art is a term that describes a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities, but here refers to the visual arts, which cover the creation of images or objects in fields including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and other visual media.

This movement began in Italy in the 14th century and the term, literally meaning rebirth, describes the revival of interest in the artistic achievements of the Classical world.

Most often, the term describes those who create within a context of the fine arts or ' high culture ', activities such as drawing, painting, sculpture, acting, dancing, writing, filmmaking, photography, and music — people who use imagination, talent, or skill to create works that may be judged to have an aesthetic value.

The term aweigh describes an anchor when it is hanging on the rode and is not resting on the bottom.

The term " anti-ballistic missile " describes any antimissile system designed to counter ballistic missiles.

Alexander's term, " debauched sensory appreciation " describes how the repetition of a circumstance encourages habit design as a person adapts to circumstances or builds skills.

Atomic Semantics is a term which describes the guarantees provided by a data register shared by several processors in a parallel machine or in a network of computers working together.

Even in contemporary India the term rasa denoting " flavor " or " essence " is used colloquially to describe the aesthetic experiences in films ; " māsala mix " describes popular Hindi cinema films which serve a so called balanced emotional meal for the masses, savored as rasa by these spectators.

The term was coined by Fanya Montalvo by analogy with NP-complete and NP-hard in complexity theory, which formally describes the most famous class of difficult problems.

The term also accurately describes the condition of the baseball itself.

The Latin term ultra vires describes activities of officials within an organization or polity that fall outside the constitutional or statutory authority of those officials.

The term also describes films that have remained popular over a long period of time amongst a small group of followers.

The term " instant celebrity " describes someone who becomes a celebrity in a very short period of time.

However in Daoism it refers more often to a meta-physical term that describes a force that encompasses the entire universe but which cannot be described nor felt.

The term cretin describes a person so affected, but, as with words such as spastic, idiot and lunatic, also is a word of abuse.

The term " congregationalist polity " describes a form of church governance that is based on the local congregation.

In philosophy, the term critical theory describes the neo-Marxist philosophy of the Frankfurt School, developed in Europe in the 1930s, that engaged the works of intellectuals such as Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.

The term medical condition is used as a synonym for medical state, where it describes a patient's current state, as seen from a medical standpoint.

Arne Garborg describes land-draugar coming fresh from the graveyards, and the term draug is even used of vampires.

The term is a modern word that describes the portrayal of the human anatomy and sexuality with high-art aspirations, differentiating such work from commercial pornography.

The term is sometimes also colloquially used to refer to acceptance of the modern evolutionary synthesis, a scientific theory that describes how biological evolution occurs.

Although the term describes events as impinging on England, from the outset the conflicts involved wars with and civil wars within both Scotland and Ireland ; see Wars of the Three Kingdoms for an overview.

In thermodynamics, the term exothermic (" outside heating ") describes a process or reaction that releases energy from the system, usually in the form of heat, but also in the form of light ( e. g. a spark, flame, or explosion ), electricity ( e. g. a battery ), or sound ( e. g. burning hydrogen ).

Environmental skepticism is an umbrella term that describes those that argue that particular claims put forward by environmentalists and environmental scientists who support the first are false or exaggerated, along with those who are critical of environmentalism in general.

The distinction between the two is subtle: " higher-order " describes a mathematical concept of functions that operate on other functions, while " first-class " is a computer science term that describes programming language entities that have no restriction on their use ( thus first-class functions can appear anywhere in the program that other first-class entities like numbers can, including as arguments to other functions and as their return values ).