No kidding. I mean, Brecht had his faults - both he as a person and he as a thinker - but that kind of snobbery was never one of them.

I always loved the story from Elisabeth Bergner's memoirs about how when Brecht directed her in a production of The Duchess of Malfi he was aghast that she sat down at the same spot where she'd risen not five minutes earlier and said: "But Bergner, didn't you learn anything from Max? This is strictly against his rules?" It took her a moment to realize he meant Max Rheinhardt, whom you'd think he'd have considered as the epitome of commercial theatre etc., and she said "YOU are quoting MAX to me?" Brecht, deadpan: "Well, of course."