Late modern theater
The theater of the late modern period describes the development of the theater from the Romantic period to the present day .
The structure of a modern theater differs only slightly from ancient models. The content is strongly oriented towards the currents of naturalism , realism , Dadaism , expressionism , surrealism , absurdism and postmodernism . Influential authors of this period are Bertolt Brecht , Antonin Artaud , Konstantin Stanislavski , Harold Pinter , Steven Berkoff , Eugene O'Neill , Samuel Beckett , and Tony Kushner .
Special developments in theater are:
- Naturalistic theater
- Symbolistic theater
- Theater under National Socialism
- Post war theater
- Modern theater
- Post-dramatic theater
literature
- Manfred Brauneck : Classics of acting direction. Positions and commentaries on the theater in the 20th century , Rowohlt, Reinbek 1988, (Rowohlt's Enzyklopädie; Vol .; 477). ISBN 3-499-55477-1
- Katharina Keim, Peter M. Boenisch, Robert Braunmüller (eds.): Theater without borders . Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2003. ISBN 3-8316-0237-9
- Klaus Lazarowicz , Christopher Balme (Hrsg.): Texts on the theory of theater , Reclam, Stuttgart 2003. ISBN 3-15-008736-8