Epic Play

 Epic Play

a modern episodic drama that seeks to provoke objective understanding of a social problem through a series of loosely connected scenes that avoid illusion and often interrupt the action to address the audience directly with analysis or argument (as by a narrator) or with documentation (as by a film)

• Captions explaining what’s going on on stage/screen.
• Emphasises the audience’s perspective.
• Actors summarizing events that have just played out.
• Exposing set functions, like ropes, pulleys, and extras.
• Screen projections or placards.
• Actors interacting with the audience members.
• Bringing audience members on stage.
• Intentionally poor or ironic acting.
• The actor steps out of their role.
• The actor speaks the stage directions.