Epic theater

/ˈɛpɪk θˈiətə/

/ˈɛpɪk θˈiəɾɚ/

Epic theater

a type of theater that seeks to provoke social and political change, often featuring theatrical devices that distance the audience from the action

Examples

1. - Got it, the technical architecture of what if Nick Deo makes a big one day and he's like I need this Epic theater, and you're like, what's your budget?

2. And the drama department had been taken over by a German by the name of Erwin Piscator, who was well known for the Dada movement in Germany and certainly working with Max Reinhardt and the Epic Theater, which in those days in the early '30s was quite a force in Western theater and Western playwriting.