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  2. The Modern Theatre Is the Epic Theatre - Wikipedia

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    Conceptualised by 20th century German director and theatre practitioner Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), "The Modern Theatre Is the Epic Theatre" is a theoretical framework implemented by Brecht in the 1930s, which challenged and stretched dramaturgical norms in a postmodern style. [1] This framework, written as a set of notes to accompany Brecht ...

  3. Twentieth-century theatre - Wikipedia

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    Twentieth-century theatre describes a period of great change within the theatrical culture of the 20th century, mainly in Europe and North America. There was a widespread challenge to long-established rules surrounding theatrical representation; resulting in the development of many new forms of theatre, including modernism, expressionism, impressionism, political theatre and other forms of ...

  4. Modernist theatre - Wikipedia

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    Long Day's Journey into Night [1] Waiting for Godot [2] Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? [2] The Caretaker [3] A Streetcar Named Desire [4] List of modernist playwrights

  5. Realism (theatre) - Wikipedia

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    Realism was a general movement that began in 19th-century theatre, around the 1870s, and remained present through much of the 20th century. 19th-century realism is closely connected to the development of modern drama, which "is usually said to have begun in the early 1870s" with the "middle-period" work of the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen ...

  6. English drama - Wikipedia

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    Marlowe (1564–1593) was born only a few weeks before Shakespeare and must have known him. Marlowe's subject matter is different from Shakespeare's as it focuses more on the moral drama of the renaissance man than any other thing. Marlowe was fascinated and terrified by the new frontiers opened by modern science.

  7. Little Theatre Movement - Wikipedia

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    Films from several European countries were exhibited throughout the U.S. It is important to note that prior to World War I, many European films were shown in the United States. However, the 1920s was crucial because European films laid down the foundation for the American independent film culture, also known as the Little Theatre Movement. [31]

  8. Non-Aristotelian drama - Wikipedia

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    The German modernist theatre practitioner Bertolt Brecht coined the term 'non-Aristotelian drama' to describe the dramaturgical dimensions of his own work, beginning in 1930 with a series of notes and essays entitled "On a non-aristotelian drama". [1] In them, he identifies his musical The Threepenny Opera (1928) as an example of "epic form ...

  9. Nineteenth-century theatre - Wikipedia

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    Richard Wagner's Bayreuth Festival Theatre.. A wide range of movements existed in the theatrical culture of Europe and the United States in the 19th century. In the West, they include Romanticism, melodrama, the well-made plays of Scribe and Sardou, the farces of Feydeau, the problem plays of Naturalism and Realism, Wagner's operatic Gesamtkunstwerk, Gilbert and Sullivan's plays and operas ...