Week 5

Week 5

This week was Tutorial week, my tutorial is next week. but i'm using my time to update my blog and brainstorm some ideas that will hopefully help me when it comes to the end of the semester.


Ridout, N (2009) Theatre & Ethics, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.45-70

In 'theater and ethics' ridout examines the connection that politics theater and ethics all share. Theater usually involves a moral/ethical side that gets a moral/ethical response from the spectators, making the audience not just passive watchers but an involved audience capable of also exploring political and ethical issues. He then goes on to show that Shakespeare had a role to play in the analysis of theater.
He then discusses the political work that was done by Bertolt Brecht and the political message he wanted to get across. Identifying his ethical teaching and how Brecht’s theater practices are a medium for scrutinizing social life.

Nicholas Ridout states that Brecht’s dramatic practice is a process of clarity. Brecht’s ''the decision”, is a play where, four socialist agitators report back to their mission to broaden communist teachings to the people of Mukden, and is a clear example.