ОПШТЕСТВЕНО ОДГОВОРНИОТ. АКТЕР НА БРЕХТ
SOCIETY RESPONSIBLE. ACTOR ON BRECHT

Summary/Abstract: Brechtian socially oriented actor is sensitized to recognize how much the role he/she has been entrusted is needed in the society he/she lives in. The play he/she is creatively engaged in must critically reflect the current world. The approach and the circumstances in which it is produced are directly influenced and stimulated by the present-day politics. Thus contemporary theatre should be a representation which, reflecting the ideas and problems of actual life, in the best case, will have a political interference. Why Brecht’s Marxism and his belief in utopia, in the utopian potential and open political engagement of art today still do not seem outdated nor historically irrelevant? The real question is whether that is just symptomatic? Are manner and reasons why today we return to Brecht indicate that, in today’s society, something is desperately slumped, as well as the role of art? Are questions which Brecht sets about the purpose and role of the theater, equally topical today? Is it not true that we live in circumstances whose consequences are not very different from those that transformed the world after the economic collapse in 1929? Is today’s issue of the role of theater in social change equally as popular as it was in the 30’s, when leftists opposed to fascism and Stalinism?

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