Word: durrenmett
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...Durrenmett, one of Bertolt Brecht's most skillful disciples, works for "epic theater"--theater that tells its story without attempting to delude the audience that it is actually happening. He has cut Strindberg's work up into small sections, added and subtracted material, and worked out changes in collaboration with the actors who first produced the work. There is typically Brechtian disrespect for the sanctity of the source, and a typically Brechtian effort at distancing the audience through frequent interruptions...
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