hello welcome to organic acting I'm Chris Conway and this is Stanislavski versus Brecht
so unlike the thumbnail of this video suggests this isn't gonna be a battle between the two
where we find out which one is better they are both very different practitioners but they just
have different views about the way theatre should be approached and the end resort if you haven't
checked out my video on Brecht please do check it out I've linked it up above but let's get started
so first off we have Stanislavski who implicates the audience and the actor in the situation so
an actor has worked out their motivation their backstory they are living the pot the audience are
looking through a fourth wall into a real living breathing world it's happening whereas Brecht
the actor and the audience are an observer they are observing objectively rather than just being
drawn into this imaginary world the distancing effect or the alienation effect or the making the
familiar strange is allowing the audience to be objective next we have feelings versus reason so
with Stanislavski it provides the actor and the audience with sensations with Brecht he forces
the audience and the actor to make decisions as we know the key ideology behind epic theatre or
Brecht theater is that the audience should leave the theatre and make change change society shape
Society next we have experience versus a picture of the world so naturalism and Stanislavski is
about the emotion it's about the living moment it's about the experience of what it means to
be human and the dramatic capabilities of those moments Brecht again wanted a more objective view
he wanted the moments in his pieces and onstage to reflect what was going on in the world at
large in terms of the working class in terms of poverty in terms of hypocrisy and finally we have
plot versus narrative or one seam makes another versus each scene for itself now what do I mean
by this so basically in terms of stanislavski's theater we look in a plot we're looking at cause
and effect one scene one moment has an effect a domino effect on the rest of the plot so an
example would be Star Wars beginning of Star Wars Princess Leia hides the plans for the Death Star
on r2d2 and sends him out on an escape pod to Tatooine because she does that Luke finds r2d2
he takes r2d2 to obi-wan obi-wan convinces Luke to come with him take the plans and learn to be
a Jedi you see we have cause and effect each scene affects the next the domino effect with
Brecht epic theatre was episodic so each scene was its own kind of pottered moment it was there to
give some kind of political narrative and message and each scene although it links on although this
some semblance of plot it's its own it's its own episode it's its own fingers it has its own job it
pulls its own weight it delivers its own message and those episodes were really strongly put into
place to teach the audience to make them think to make them be objective and to create change
this is why we had placards which would tell the audience literally on a big piece of card what the
scene was what was happening it what you should pay attention to. Episodic theatre. I really hope
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