"957446658"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . "The technique of interruption pervades all levels of the stage work of the German modernist theatre practitioner Bertolt Brecht\u2014the dramatic, theatrical and performative. At its most elemental, it is a formal treatment of material that imposes a \"freeze\", a \"framing\", or a change of direction of some kind; something that is in progress (an action, a gesture, a song, a tone) is halted in some way. The technique of interruption produces an effect on the dramatic level akin to the 'pair of scissors' that Brecht imagines cutting a drama into pieces, \"which remain fully capable of life\"; the metaphor of the cut is a pertinent one, as the technique bears striking similarities to the principles of montage being developed in the Soviet Union contemporaneously with Brecht's \"epic theatre\" (by the film-makers Eisenstein, Vertov, Pudovkin, and Kuleshov)."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "2367"^^ . . . . . . "12786787"^^ . . . . "The technique of interruption pervades all levels of the stage work of the German modernist theatre practitioner Bertolt Brecht\u2014the dramatic, theatrical and performative. At its most elemental, it is a formal treatment of material that imposes a \"freeze\", a \"framing\", or a change of direction of some kind; something that is in progress (an action, a gesture, a song, a tone) is halted in some way."@en . "Interruptions (epic theatre)"@en . . . . . . . .