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One sign of the production’s Brechtian nature is the way the structural forces at work in society are revealed to be more culpable than any individual character.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2025

The project, she said, had an approach similar to “Killers”: “a self-awareness, a self-indictment … almost Brechtian, a great respect for the audience.”

From Seattle Times • May 13, 2024

But the director, operating by his own laws of compression and acceleration, instead piles layer upon Brechtian layer.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2023

“He knew perfectly that he had to have a certain Brechtian distance but at the same time not make it dry.”

From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2022

I know that sounds like a desperate postmodern gambit, but it pays hilarious and chilling dividends by turning episodes previously recounted only in disputed legal proceedings into confrontational Brechtian theater.

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2017