motion“This technique allows the theater to make use in its representations the new social scientific method, which is known as dialectical materials. In order to unearth society’s laws of motion this method treats social situations as processes, and traces out their inconsistencies. It regards nothing as existing in so far as it changes, in other words is in disharmony with itself. This also goes for those human opinions feelings and attitudes through which at any time the form of man’s life together finds its expression.” (Brecht “Short Organum…”) |