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Brecht Bytes #4

March 22, 2011March 27, 2011 Jules Odendahl-James Leave a comment Dramaturg blog

Since my feedback has been centered on paying attention to the specificity of expression within your characters’ testimony — switches amongst verb tenses, the distinction of different kinds of punctuation marks, the colloquial turns of phrase that marks region and culture, and the vagaries of individual word choice — I found a Brecht poem that […]

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Dots and Dashes

March 11, 2011March 27, 2011 Jules Odendahl-James Leave a comment Dramaturg blog

I’m a bit behind in my act-by-act review of language, so I apologize if this information arrives late in your memorization process. On March 2nd, when we reviewed Act Two, I started noticing how the play uses ellipses […] and dashes [—]. And like with my previous “you know …” post, I thought it might […]

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