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Representation and Reception: Brechtian ‚ÄòPedagogics of Theatre‚Äô and Critical Thinking deploys German playwright Bertolt Brecht‚Äôs theory of drama and performance, what he calls “the pedagogics of theatre”, to create modes of critical thinking in the classroom. Extrapolating on Brecht‚Äôs estranged forms of representation‚Äînarrative, story, montage, Verfremd√ºngseffeckt or alienation, tableaux, ostension (showing), gestus, masks and music‚ÄîBurney constructs an original “3-R Pedagogy” or “spiral of semiosis”‚Äî”Rethinking/Replaying/Re-cognition”‚Äîthat is designed to create critical thinking and “complex seeing”. Her dramatic production of Brecht‚Äôs Lehrst√ºck, or learning-play, The Exception and the Rule, for a non-literate, working-class audience in Hyderabad, India, critically analyses how audiences make meaning through image, word and ideology, gesture, memory, collective experience and personal (hi)stories.