| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 8179 |
| QUOTATION: | We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), German dramatist, poet. repr. In Brecht on Theatre, ed. and trans. by John Willett (1964). “A Short Organum for the Theatre,” para. 35 (1949). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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