Brecht.

  Verfremdungseffekt = creating emotions, for example: an actress is playing a character who has been raped and the audience feels what she feels, but then a clown is behind her making fun and you laugh. You are then conflicted, you question it and are confused. Brecht wanted to his audiences to leave thinking, he wanted to always make a point in his shows.

  This could help our play as we could incorporate it, so for example in screen 8 when Grimshaw snatches Sylvia's toy from her with plans to throw it into the fire, the audience should feel sorry for the little girl and hate Grimshaw. Yet by using this effect, if Grimshaw says his line "Barbeque it. I love the smell of burning toys in the morning." This makes the audience laugh when he looks at them with a creepy expression so then the audience are confused as to whether they should still feel sorry for the girl or laugh at him. I think that this works really well and it is using the effect perfectly too.

  'Placards' also by Brecht are blunt. Placards show a characters emotions, thoughts and feelings on a piece of card to tell the audience exactly what is going on. Brecht does this to move scenes on faster so that the audience already know what is happening without them trying to guess or wait for something memorable to happen. Here is my interpretation of a Placard scene:

The thought bubbles would be the placards. It is a type of narration, it sets the scene without having to say it in lines. However in 'wolves' we won't use them because for this particular play it is better to be subtle and Brecht wasn't really that subtle.

  There is also more narration that we are actually using in wolves in the chorus. This sets the scene but is still a lot more subtle than the idea of placards. It is story telling and Brecht liked that, he went to Greek theatre and the only thing he really liked was the chorus'. The types of narration are:

 *1st person- "I did this."

 *3rd person- objects that move.

 *in character

 *stepping out of character

Caricature = a joke of themselves, e.g. Miss Slighcarp, Mr Grimshaw, etc. They are not like real human beings that you would see everyday.

Stereotypes = sexuality, clothes, 'chavs', 'teen mums', etc. It is based on ignorance and speak from others. Easy to say, automatically being brought up with it. It is useful however because if you are trying to show a stereotypical character the audience will know exactly what it is meant to be.