Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Realism
- Represent life truthfully & authentically
- Audience could believe reality of play
- No poetry/dreams/music/supernatural
- Psychologically complex characters
- Audience can relate
- Subject to their environment
- Unique speech & thought
- Form follows content
- Dominant theatrical movement today
- More than just entertainment
- Gender equality, identity, politics (taboo)
- Make audience aware of issues
- Instigate societal change
- Plays often banned/censored
- Konstantin Stanislavski (Russian director)
- Stanislavski System (new acting style
- Complex characters & situations
- Still used today
- Naturalism
- Extreme form of Realism
- 'Slice of life'
- Emile Zola's 'Naturalism in Theatre'
- No intermission
- Multidimensional characters
- Real scenery
- Fragmented, realistic dialogue