Theater:Bertolt Brecht

 

''Our enjoyment of old plays becomes greater, the more we can give ourselves up to the new kind of pleasures better suited to our time. To that end we need to develop the historical sense (needed also for the appreciation of new plays) into a real sensual delight. When our theatres perform plays of other periods they like to annihilate distance, fill in the gap, gloss over the differences. But what comes then of our differences. But what comes then of our delight in comparisons, in distance, in dissimilarity-which is at the same time a delight in what is close and proper to ourselves."

Bertolt Brecht on Theater