Mini drama
A minidrama , also known as a dramolet or microdrama (the latter term was created by Wolfgang Bauer ), is a short play that lasts a maximum of 15 to 20 minutes, but is usually much shorter.
Mini-dramas include sketch , prelude , epilogue , theatrical short stories , one-act plays , fragments , short monologues , pantomime , impromptu improvisations . Often mini-dramas are absurd , grotesque, or macabre .
Well-known authors of mini-dramas include a. Samuel Beckett , Robert Walser , Harold Pinter , Elfriede Jelinek , Antonio Fian (who calls his pieces Dramolette), the members of the Viennese group , Daniil Charms and Ken Campbell . With his microdramas (1962/63), Wolfgang Bauer showed the limits of the theater by starting, for example, a DC-6 from the stage and then crashing again within less than five minutes using stage directions (in the microdrama The Three Musketeers ) , Ride 10,000 Apaches across the stage and have Richard Wagner's entire operatic works performed without interruption (in Richard Wagner's microdrama ). Theoretically, the latter goes beyond the genre boundaries of mini-drama, in terms of length, but Bauer's microdramas are considered unperformable and are therefore pure reading dramas and the text of the said piece does not exceed three pages.
Publications
- Wolfgang Bauer : Microdramas . (Originated 1962/63. In: W. Bauer: Werke, Vol. 1: One-act and early dramas. Graz, Vienna: Droschl 1986.) ISBN 3-85420-126-5
- Karlheinz Braun (Ed.): MiniDramas. (Gathers 111 mini dramas, from HC Artmann to Samuel Beckett , Harold Pinter , Monty Python and even Arthur Schopenhauer to Thornton Wilder . Verlag der authors 1987) ISBN 978-3-88661-082-2
- Anton Christian : The passage of time .
- Franziska Polanski : Please despair outside .
- FK Waechter : The last things . (Publishing house of the authors 1992) ISBN 978-3-88661-127-0
- Lida Winiewicz : Ghost Train. A trip around the world in Vienna .
- Thomas Richhardt: Practice material. Scenic writing in class. Mini dramas. Texts to replay, exercises and methods . (Kallmeyer Verlag 2016) ISBN 978-3772710568