The Drama Teacher’s sister-site, Theatre Links, has recently published all of Henrik Ibsen’s and Anton Chekhov’s plays available on the Internet in PDF. For years now, most of the works of Ibsen and Chekhov have…
Symbolism was a movement in literature and the arts originating with a group of French poets in the late 19th century. Jean Moréas published The Symbolist Manifesto in 1886. As a conscious theatre movement, symbolism…
Epic theatre, the non-realistic theatre style which emerged in early 20th century Berlin with director Erwin Piscator and playwright and director Bertolt Brecht, produced epic theatre plays that were understandably different in structure and form…
1. History of Greek Theatre The beginnings of Western theatre date back to Ancient Greece in the 6th century B.C. The earliest performances occurred in 534 BC at a play festival honouring Dionysus, the Greek…
