Bernstein 67: "Brecht wished / the spectator to look / at the plot / without / being caught up / in it; but / he also counted on this / process of critique / as itself / holding, / & even intensifying, / the audience's attention. / Nor / did he eliminate / the absorbing / qualities of the / melodrama / 'underneath' [...] In effect, Brecht doubles / the attention / of the spectator / in his hyperabsorptive / theater"
> from Charles Bernstein's A Poetics (1992)
> tagged with #theatre, #attention
> created created Feb 19, 2025 at 11:51:46 AM
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