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It can be said that, starting with Renaissance theatre, contemporary
theatre has tried to achieve realism.
He achieved this at the end of the 19th
century, when the anti-realist movement
emerged in this performing art.
In the USA, realist theatre continued to
advance, and more so in the commercial
aspect, but the objective was to achieve
psychological realism.
Poems were added in the form of
dialogue to sweeten the crude
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Symbolist
Theatre
The symbolist current
The texts were endowed with a rather complex symbology.
The pace of the works was usually slow, while at the same time
seeking to have a dream.
Emerging during the 19th century, the symbolists sought to achieve
the “de-realization” of theatre, to eliminate all stage and technological
advancement and replace it with an idea of spirituality coming from
interpretation and text.
best known
from the
theater
symbolist
Axël is a drama by the French writer Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, published in 1890. He
was influenced by his participation in the Paris Commune, the Gnostic philosophy
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Hugo. It starts in a hidden castle. The Byronic hero Axël meets a Germanic princess. After an
initial conflict they fall in love. They talk about the amazing trips they plan to take. But they
realize that life will never live up to their dreams. Then they commit suicide.
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In the first 20 years of the 20th century,
Expressionist theatre had its greatest heyday,
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especially in Germany.
This modality aimed to delve into grotesque
aspects of the human psyche. A set design was
usually created that emulated an environment that
simulated a nightmare.
Characteristics
Lights and shadows Distortion
This style opposes naturalism, refuses to imitate the normal and reflects things
as they really are. Its aim is to make theatre a mediator between
philosophy and life, to transmit ideals and to renew society.
Theatre work
expressionist
Georg Kaiser (1878-1945)
Georg Kaiser is considered the
German expressionist playwright
par excellence, his works Some works:
performed both in Germany and
abroad, but with the rise of From Dawn to
National Socialism to power, his Midnight (1912)
plays were burned and banned,
and Kaiser had to go into exile in
Switzerland, where he continued • The bourgeois
his work as a playwright. of Calais (1914):
03 Theatre
of the
Absurd
It arises. . .
After the Second World War.
Its main Genesis comes from the
absurdity and senselessness of a
disillusioned, destroyed world. It has no
logic and the absurd is that which has
no resemblance to a conventional stage
context or dramatic text and this
characterizes it.
Characters
The existence of these has no meaning, so there are no
characters or consequent action.
Work
s
Among the cultivators of this theatre are
Eugene Ionesco and Samuel Beckett (other important
authors are
Jean Genet, Arthur Adamov, Harold Pinter and Edward
Albee
) and two works mark the official
birth of the theatre of the absurd: The Bald Soprano and Waiting for
Godot, premiered in 1950 and 1953 respectively.
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Musi
cal
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They appeared. . .
In the 1920s. An amalgam of dances,
songs, dialogues and short comic
pieces, even adapting stories that were
originally dramatic.
A theater group led by Oscar
Hammerstein II and Richard
Rodgers updated and perfected the
musical genre of the 1940s.
But in the 60s this show left its
roots as a musical to become
something darker and more
serious.
In the late 70s, due to the tension
caused by the political and
economic situation, musicals
returned as a way for people to
escape their problems.
Most of them were reruns, with high budgets, so luxury
and excess were very present.
A curious fact is that some of these musical theatre works
were broadcast on the radio, since the public liked their
lively lyrics and songs.
Major
works
Musical 1 CATS. It is one of the
Theatre highest-grossing
musicals in history. THE
2 LION KING.........
3 CHICAGO....
4 HAIRSPRAY
5 WEST SIDE STORY...
THE PHANTOM OF
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THE OPERA................
7 WICKED....
MAMMA MIA.
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