Sunday, 5 October 2014

Naturalism Notes - Danny

What is naturalism?

Naturalism is when you act as if you are in the natural world, with no physical Theater breaking of the 4th wall etc.

"Naturalism is a movement in European drama and theater that developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It refers to theater that attempts to create a perfect illusion of reality through a range of dramatic and theatrical strategies: detailed, three-dimensional settings (which bring Darwinian understandings of the determining role of the environment into the staging of human drama); everyday speech forms (prose over poetry); a secular world-view (no ghosts, spirits or gods intervening in the human action); an exclusive focus on subjects that are contemporary and indigenous (no exotic, otherworldly or fantastic locales, nor historical or mythic time-periods)" -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalism_%28theatre%29


Plays that use Naturalism:

  • A Bitter Fate (1859)
  • A Doll's House (1879)
  • The Power of Darkness (1886)
  • The Father (1887)
  • Miss Julie (1888)
  • Creditors (1889)
  • Drayman Henschel (1898)



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