Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 What Is Theater?
- Season 1 Thespis, Athens, and The Origins of Greek Drama
- Season 1 Tragedy Lessons from Aristotle
- Season 1 Greek Comedy, Satyrs, and Aristophanes
- Season 1 Dances to Flute Music and Obscene Verse. It's Roman Theater, Everybody
- Season 1 Roman Theater with Plautus, Terence, and Seneca
- Season 1 Nostrils, Harmony with the Universe, and Ancient Sanskrit Theater
- Season 1 The Death and Resurrection of Theater as...Liturgical Drama
- Season 1 Hrotsvitha, Hildegard, and the Nun who Resurrected Theater
- Season 1 Get Outside and Have a (Mystery) Play
- Season 1 Just Say Noh. But Also Say Kyogen
- Season 1 Pee Jokes, the Italian Renaissance, Commedia Dell'Arte
- Season 1 The English Renaissance and NOT Shakespeare
- Season 1 Straight Outta Stratford-Upon-Avon - Shakespeare's Early Days
- Season 1 Shakespeare's Tragedies and an Acting Lesson
- Season 1 Comedies, Romances, and Shakespeare's Heroines
- Season 1 English Theater After Shakespeare
- Season 1 Where Did Theater Go?
- Season 1 The Spanish Golden Age
- Season 1 Rules, Rule-Breaking, and French Neoclassicism
- Season 1 Moliere - Man of Satire and Many Burials
- Season 1 Pre-Columbian Theater, Spanish Empire, and Sor Juana
- Season 1 Japan, Kabuki, and Bunraku
- Season 1 All Night Demon Dance Party - Kathakali
- Season 1 China, Zaju, and Beijing Opera
- Season 1 England's Sentimental Theater
- Season 1 Why So Angry, German Theater?
- Season 1 The Rise of Melodrama
- Season 1 North America Gets a Theater...Riot
- Season 1 Race Melodrama and Minstrel Shows
- Season 1 Zola, France, Realism, and Naturalism
- Season 1 Realism Gets Even More Real
- Season 1 Symbolism, Realism, and a Nordic Playwright Grudge Match
- Season 1 Chekhov and the Moscow Art Theater
- Season 1 The Horrors of the Grand Guignol
- Season 1 Synge, Wilde, Shaw, and the Irish Renaissance
- Season 1 Dada, Surrealism, and Symbolism
- Season 1 Expressionist Theater
- Season 1 Futurism and Constructivism
- Season 1 Little Theater and American Avant Garde
- Season 1 The Harlem Renaissance
- Season 1 Federal Theatre and Group Theater
- Season 1 Antonin Artaud and the Theater of Cruelty
- Season 1 Bertolt Brecht and Epic Theater
- Season 1 Beckett, Ionesco, and the Theater of the Absurd
- Season 1 Broadway, Seriously
- Season 1 The Birth of Off Broadway
- Season 1 Poor Unfortunate Theater
- Season 1 Into Africa and Wole Soyinka
- Season 1 Broadway Book Musicals
Crash Course Theater and Drama - Season 1 Episode 44 Bertolt Brecht and Epic Theater
0.00 13 minutes Are you ready to learn something about the world? Then you're ready for Bertolt Brecht, and his ideas about Epic Theater. Brecht wanted to lean into the idea of theater as a tool to upset and educate the world about stuff like the struggles of the working class and the problematic aspects of capitalism. He wanted to SHOCK people into seeing the world as it is and taking action, rather than merely entertain audiences. But, he messed up, and wrote some pretty entertaining stories, with some really catchy music integrated into it. And do, people ended up whistling Mack the Knife instead of throwing off the shackles of an oppressive social order. To be fair, it is a catchy tune. Today you're going to learn about Brecht, Epic Theater, and a little bit about the House UnAmerican Activities Committee. Because those jerks hauled Brecht up in 1948 to shake him down about whether or not he was a communist.
