Brecht's drama is an important school of German drama in the 20th century, which has formed its own drama system and exerted great influence on the world drama. Brecht's important contribution to drama is to establish the theory of "narrative drama".
His drama aesthetic thought is based on dialectical materialism epistemology, and the basic starting point is that drama must play an educational role, not only to explain the world, but also to change it. The core of his artistic method is "alienation effect".
Brecht consciously creates an emotional distance between the role, the actor and the audience, so that the actor is not only the executor of his role, but also his "referee"; Let the audience become "bystanders" and treat the events performed on the stage with an exploratory and critical attitude.
He asked the director to let the actors give full play to their subjective initiative; Similarly, he also allows the audience to maximize the subjective initiative of thinking and aesthetics, and through the subjective initiative of the audience, the works can reach a higher aesthetic education.
Brecht's types of drama theory
1. A kind of drama is created according to the standard of drama genre defined by Aristotle in Poetics, which he calls drama or Aristotle's drama; -Only the actions of the characters are allowed to reflect life.
2. A kind of drama is created in violation of Aristotle's standards, and he calls it an epic drama or a non-Aristotle drama. Infiltrate narrative factors into drama, so that the expression forms of epic-narrative and drama-action can be combined with each other, thus expanding the expressive techniques of drama and enhancing the expressive force of drama.