Who is The Audience (in theatre) from Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic and what is their importance? Brecht_on_Theatre:_The_Development_of_an_Aesthetic English & Literature The Audience (in theatre) | Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic

For Brecht, an audience in the theatre was essentially a collection of adult schoolchildren, the equivalent of the proletariat, working class individuals who needed (and ought to be) instructed in new and more enlightened ways of thinking and being, as opposed to just sitting back and being reactively entertained.