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MODERN DRAMA

MODERN DRAMA. (Survey). SYNONYMS :. Theatre of Cruelty Theatre of the Absurd Anti -theatre Theatre of Silence. John Osborne : "Look Back in Anger" (1956). Samuel Beckett : "Waiting for Godot" (1956). Initiated by :. NEW CONTENTS :.

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MODERN DRAMA

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  1. MODERNDRAMA (Survey)

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

  3. John Osborne : "Look Back in Anger" (1956) Samuel Beckett : "Waiting for Godot" (1956) Initiatedby:

  4. NEWCONTENTS: • No middle class environment anymore, but working class background • violence, which has some strange fascination • fears of different kinds • ruthlessness • inability to communicate >> 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. FURTHERREPRESENTATIVES : * Alan Ayckbourn * Harold Pinter * James Saunders * Tom Stoppard

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

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