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Title: MODERN DRAMA


1
MODERN DRAMA
  • (Survey)

2
SYNONYMS
  • Theatre of Cruelty
  • Theatre of the Absurd
  • Anti-theatre
  • Theatre of Silence

3
Initiated by
  • John Osborne
  • "Look Back in Anger"
  • (1956)
  • Samuel Beckett
  • "Waiting for Godot"
  • (1956)

4
NEW CONTENTS
  • No middle class environment anymore, but working
    class background
  • violence, which has some strange fascination
  • fears of different kinds
  • ruthlessness
  • inability to communicate gtgt lack of
    communication
  • loneliness
  • ?
  • craving for love / friendship / close
    relationships
  • sex (often not heterosexual)

5
AIMS
  • Demonstration of the chaos and incoherence of
    ordinary speech
  • Revelation of fundamental problems in society
  • ?
  • social criticism

6
STYLE
  • satire
  • sick humour

7
FURTHER REPRESENTATIVES
  • Alan Ayckbourn Harold Pinter
  • James Saunders Tom Stoppard

8
Possibilities of representing characters
  • by....
  • the description of the character in the stage
    directions
  • what he says and how he behaves
  • what other characters say about him/her
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