Theather As an Awakening Vaccine (Brechtian Concept)

Abstract

As soon as this article discusses the theateropportunity as an
awakening vaccine in Indonesian society during the Covid 19
pandemic. Art has become the most powerful medium to reach the
public area in the middle of a fairly tension and uncertain national
situation. This discussion will present Bertolt Brecht concept of
thinking in a different form of thought, but the author believes that in
the social condition that occurs in the middle of Indonesian people
who are panicking, theater is the right solution. Brechtian concept has
the idea that allapparatus of performance, including audiences are
required to stay apart nowadays, this is a reality that examines artists
and audiences due to physical distancing from the actual theater.
Nobody realizes that the concept of verfremdungsefekt which is
defined as isolation, distance, or alienation is now becoming more
powerful in the middle of the pandemic. The basic thinking makes the
writer believe that to create a healthy physical condition, theater
vaccineis the answer as awareness both conceptually in performance
and in presentational performance fragment, the author thinks that it is
a strategy in the social condition nowadays