Bertolt Brecht Quotes
From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun.
Brecht, Bertolt. Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic. Translated by John Willett, Hill and Wang, 1964, p. 180.
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a playwright in Munich and moved to Berlin in 1924, where he wrote The Threepenny Opera with Kurt Weill and began a lifelong collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, he wrote didactic Lehrstücke and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre (which he later preferred to call "dialectical theatre") and the so-called V-effect.
