Word: realisme
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...Workshop will present a most unusual drama in Agassiz House of Radcliffe College on Friday and Saturday evenings, May 11 and 12, producing "Welcome to Our City", a play of realism in ten scenes, having over 30 speaking parts with an equal number of supernumeraries...
There are three outstanding dramatic institutions in the world today: the Moscow Art Theatre, Gordon Craig of England, Max Reinhardt of Germany. Almost everything that we owe to the modern developments in the theatre-to Realism, to Naturalism, to Expressionism, to the revolution in stage setting, scene designing, lighting, grouping, producing, directing, in short, to the whole new art of the drama, can be traced to these three sources...
...early fame resulted from his work" with the great naturalistic director Brahm of the Frie Volks-bühne, but in Gorky's Night Lodging (played by the Moscow Art Theatre as The Lower Depths) he brought Realism to its highest point. Together with Gordon Craig he was the father of intimacy in the theatre. But in his Berlin and Munich productions he showed himself the master of large scale dramatic pageantry as well...
From those sad few of us who are struggling to flee from the Ulysses-Black Oxen-Jurgen mania, Francis Brett Young's latest book draws forth a sigh of relief. In "Pilgrim's Rest" there is realism to be sure, but it deals with the loneliness of the African jungle, and the ups and downs of life in an African gold-mine town. Like its contemporaries got it is outspoken, and yet it leaves one with the comforting feeling that perhaps the present-day light novel has not completely fallen into the hands of a corporation of psycho-sexualists...
...sophisticated tourist who saw the Passion Play at Oberammergau last summer may have heard the devil whispering in his ear. "It's queer but is it art?" Yet whether he shuddered at the obtrusive realism or twitched in his seat through the long choral renditions, he could not but be impressed by the character of the players. Nobody could quesion their zeal, their industry, and their lack of business ability, which is an earmark of the artist...