November and Brecht or There Was Not Really Any Theatre? To the notion of political theatre-performance in November and December 1989

Abstract

An essay, which explores in the notions of Brecht´s poetics the character of the theatricality of the public meetings in the Czech theatres during the Velvet Revolution in 1989.

Keywords

• November 1989
• political theatre
• performance
• theatricality of public meetings
• Brecht