Thursday 1 July 2010

verfremdungseffekt in a counter-camp

In a Leeds University students' presentation of Strindberg's "Miss Julie" in 1972, in order to pull down the play's thick fourth wall with Brecht's verfremdungseffekt, the director, a deeply resourceful person, transferred the mid-summer night's fesitvity that occurs in the middle of the play from stage to house by making the actors come in pantomime from stage to the audience and serve each spectator, me included, with a glass of wine, and the director at the same and without violating the playscript turned round Strindberg's wish not to have an intermission in the play when the spectators enjoyed their wine and became part of the world of the play and the characters from the world of the play came to the world of reality in an occasion that was no less important than when Pirandello, in "Six Characters in Search of an Author", made characters from house walk onto the stage

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