His full name was Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brech he was born on the 10th of February 1898 in Augsburg he died on the 14th of August 1956 in east Germany. He had 4 children named Frank Banholzer, Hanne Stephan Brecht and Barbara Brecht – Schall

Eugen was a German poet writer, play writer and also a theatre director of the 20th century. From his late twenties Brecht remained a lifelong committed Marxist[citation needed] who, in developing the combined theory and practice of his “epic theatre”, synthesized and extended the experiments of Erwin Piscator and Vsevolod Meyerhold to explore the theatre as a forum for political ideas and the creation of a critical aesthetics of dialectical materialism.Statue of Brecht outside the Berliner Ensemble’s theatre in Berlin
Epic Theatre proposed that a play should not cause the spectator to identify emotionally with the characters or action before him or her, but should instead provoke rational self-reflection and a critical view of the action on the stage. Brecht thought that the experience of a climactic catharsis of emotion left an audience complacent. Instead, he wanted his audiences to adopt a critical perspective in order to recognise social injustice and exploitation and to be moved to go forth from the theatre and effect change in the world outside.[67] For this purpose, Brecht employed the use of techniques that remind the spectator that the play is a representation of reality and not reality itself. By highlighting the constructed nature of the theatrical event, Brecht hoped to communicate that the audience’s reality was equally constructed and, as such, was changeable.

in my drama scene the word we was using was cracker and that was the only word that we were aloud to use. So the audience had to try and figure out what we was doing in our scene by what we was doing. In our scene there was 3 of us and there was a drill Sargent who was telling us what we have to do. The reason why we done this is to make the audience focus on the scene and try and figure out what was going on without is using proper words.