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This study explored the relationship between the dramatic and the educational theories developed by Bertolt Brecht and selected twentieth-century theories of pedagogy. A survey of Brecht's life and works revealed that although the stimulus-response theories of the associationist psychologists were inappropriate to Brecht's concepts, the three principal aspects of Gestaltism—perception, insight, and life space, as formulated by Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, Wolfgang Kohler, and Kurt Lewin—seemed profoundly related to Brecht's concern with man's ability to perceive and to learn about his environment. Brecht strove to create perceptual images of historical environments. The characters, who represented various ideologies and philosophies in situations which stimulated insightful learning, struggled with life spaces that accurately resembled life outside the theatre. Thus, Brecht utilized elements of the theories of perception, insight, and life space in his dramas as he strove to force his audiences to perceive the characters' environments, to grasp the significance and relationships between the characters' environments and their own social milieu, and to recognize those influences in one's life space which attract or repel the individual. The study also suggested that Brecht's works might be amenable to empirical study.

Zugl.: Mannheim, Univ., Diss., 2005

This dissertation studies the interchange between political theatre and postwar political trials. I argue that to an extraordinary extent, theatre history in this period is inextricable from trial history. Through close archival study of mid-century theatre productions including Bertolt Brecht's 1954 production of "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" and the fifteen simultaneous premiere productions of Peter Weiss's "The Investigation" in 1965, I show how directors and playwrights looked to legal trials in order to develop and articulate theories of epic and documentary theatre, and how this new theatre in turn sought to effect justice in ways that trials alone could not.

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Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

El trabajo aborda el proceso creativo del actor hacia personaje. Partiendo de la problemática de que el personaje es a la vez el actor en la vida real, se realiza un seguimiento en cuanto a las herramientas actorales (como la memoria emotiva imaginada y el distanciamiento brechtiano) que ayudaron al actor a establecer límites emocionales y físicos al encarnar al personaje. Por ello, el objetivo de este trabajo es examinar de qué manera estas herramientas ayudaron al actor a tener un mayor control emocional frente a la presencia del uso de la memoria emotiva. En tanto la finalidad de este trabajo es comprender cómo se da el proceso de desvinculación parcial de la memoria emotiva del actor para llegar al personaje, se realizan entrevistas y observaciones de campo para reconstruir el proceso creativo bajo las experiencias y práctica del actor y la directora del montaje-estreno de “Financiamiento Desaprobado” (2017).