If You Were Creating A Course On Naturalism In The Theatre, Which Plays/scripts Would You Include?
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Naturalism, the bane of many a theatre student's existence and it's tenuous and irritating relationship to Realism is still a great subject to study:
Early Naturalism should be studied in:
A melodrama - Maria Martin or Murder in the Red Barn - to have something to compare it to!
Therese Raquin - the novel and then Therese Raquin the play both by Emile Zola
Miss Julie - by August Strindberg (pronounced Strinburry - the Preface to Miss Julie is particularly important to those studying naturalism, it acts as a king of manifesto)
The Weavers by Hauptmann
The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
The Voysey Inheristance by Harley Granville Barker (and Mamet does a lovely version of this).
Look Back in Anger by John Osbourne
Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
An episode of Eastenders or CSI.
Christhoper Innes also wrote a great book on Naturalism which would provide a marvellous companion reader to the study of naturalistic theatre.
Early Naturalism should be studied in:
A melodrama - Maria Martin or Murder in the Red Barn - to have something to compare it to!
Therese Raquin - the novel and then Therese Raquin the play both by Emile Zola
Miss Julie - by August Strindberg (pronounced Strinburry - the Preface to Miss Julie is particularly important to those studying naturalism, it acts as a king of manifesto)
The Weavers by Hauptmann
The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
The Voysey Inheristance by Harley Granville Barker (and Mamet does a lovely version of this).
Look Back in Anger by John Osbourne
Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
An episode of Eastenders or CSI.
Christhoper Innes also wrote a great book on Naturalism which would provide a marvellous companion reader to the study of naturalistic theatre.
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