What is Gestus?
Socially encoded expression that is consciously employed. Brecht came up with the idea inspired by Charlie Chaplin as he expressed socialised behaviour in his characters. He developed this because he felt that psychological theatre focused too heavily on facial expressions and it meant gesture dried up and had a lack of importance within the performance. He wanted people to investigate the body language of a class and their habits, manners and customs. He wanted to look at how the things the characters did in a play was influenced by society and the gestures were a way of showing this.
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