Bertolt Brecht Theatre Quotations

Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.

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.

Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.

From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun.