Büchner is the forerunner of expression, followed by Wedekind and Strindberg. The style is then traced from Kaiser and Toller to O'Neill, Wilder and the later O'Casey. Important producers are Reinhardt and Meyerhold. Epic theatre is studied from Piscator and Brecht to Dürrenmatt and Weiss, Arden and Bond, and is seen as flourishing in offshoots of documentary theatre. This book was first published in 1981.
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Büchner is the forerunner of expression, followed by Wedekind and Strindberg. The style is then traced from Kaiser and Toller to O'Neill, Wilder and the later O'Casey. In this 1981 book, epic theatre is studied from Piscator and Brecht to Dürrenmatt and Weiss, Arden and Bond, and is seen as flourishing in offshoots of documentary theatre.
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In the view of the art critic Herbert Read, expressionism is 'one of the basic modes of perceiving and representing the world around us'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
documentary theatre, epic theatre, expressionist drama, chalk circle, documentary drama, dream play, political theatre Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Deutsches Theater, Mother Courage, The Ghost Sonata, Spring's Awakening, The Silver Tassie, Max Reinhardt, Provincetown Players, Berliner Ensemble, The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape, The Miracle, Bertolt Brecht, First World War, Grosses Schauspielhaus, The Good Soldier Schweik, The Threepenny Opera, Theatre Guild, Camino Real, East Berlin, National Theatre, Robert Edmond Jones, Young Lady, Edward Braun, Erwin Piscator New!
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In the view of the art critic Herbert Read, expressionism is 'one of the basic modes of perceiving and representing the world around us'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
documentary theatre, epic theatre, expressionist drama, chalk circle, documentary drama, dream play, political theatre Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Deutsches Theater, Mother Courage, The Ghost Sonata, Spring's Awakening, The Silver Tassie, Max Reinhardt, Provincetown Players, Berliner Ensemble, The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape, The Miracle, Bertolt Brecht, First World War, Grosses Schauspielhaus, The Good Soldier Schweik, The Threepenny Opera, Theatre Guild, Camino Real, East Berlin, National Theatre, Robert Edmond Jones, Young Lady, Edward Braun, Erwin Piscator New!
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