Peter Weiss was an icon of the political play in 1960s and 1970s. ``Resistance`` and ``aesthetics`` are keywords of his total theaters. He stimulated the political awakening and resistance, yet never gave up "aesthetics". It is distinctive theatrical ...
Peter Weiss was an icon of the political play in 1960s and 1970s. ``Resistance`` and ``aesthetics`` are keywords of his total theaters. He stimulated the political awakening and resistance, yet never gave up "aesthetics". It is distinctive theatrical elements that distinguish his plays from the other banal political plays. He accepted actively theatrical aesthetics of avant-garde theaters that run counter to a doctrinaire belief of ``socialist realism``. He made a contribution to a extension of critical realism, by linking Brechtian dramaturgy and a collection of heterogeneous theatrical languages. His aesthetics of drama can be considered as a alternative attempt in a political uncertainty. < Trial > of Peter Weiss is also an experimental theatre that connects the epic theatre and surrealistic theater. It adopted from Franz Kafkas < Trial >. Weiss gave careful consideration to differences in media of roman and play. He enhanced theatricality by introducing the concrete history and events and reducing Kafka`s mystical and ambiguous elements. As a result, this play showed unconventional appearance of the political theatre. Peter Weiss criticizes a vague political attitude of the petit bourgeois K., by using effectively a simultaneous dramaturgy of Brechtian theatre and surrealism. K. is a type of snob who pursues only success and acquisition of wealth, and is indifferent to politically unjust reality. According to Weiss, he was one of causes that brought about Fascism. A execution of K. is symbolic punishment in other to call him to account, because he couldn`t band together with working classes against capitalist rulers. He is also our self-portrait in the age of New Liberalism.