Eggsodus

Some extracts from 'The Street Scene - A Basic Model for an Epic Theatre' by Bertolt Brecht, translated by John Willet, with annotations and commentary relating to our project. the point is that the demonstrator acts the behaviour of driver or victim or both in such a way that the bystanders are able to form an opinion about the accident. Finding ourselves in such a tourist city as Athens, we wanted to avoid presenting people with something they simply consume and take pictures of and say 'oh that was nice' The demonstrator need not be an artist. The capacities he needs to achieve his aim are in effect universal. We worked quickly, with whichever collaborators turned up. The intention was more important than any supposed technique. This is in opposition to most clown training in Europe today, so influenced by Lecoq and Gaulier.  Suppose he cannot carry out some particular movement as quickly as the victim he is imitating; all he need do is to explain that he moves three...