Actor: Bertolt Brecht' s plays are not genuinely successful dramas  The roles in Brecht' s plays express such incongruous motives and beliefs that audiences, as well as the actors playing the roles, invariably find it difficult, at best, to discern any of the characters' personalities
But, for a play to succeed as a drama, audiences must care what happens to at least some of its characters
The extent to which a play succeeds as a drama is directly proportional to the extent to which the play's audiences care about its characters.