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This module examines the role that modernism has played in the development of Twentieth Century theatre within and beyond Europe. Rather than representing a unified movement, theatre鈥檚 modernisms can be seen as a series of experiments upon earlier theatrical forms. Expressionism, surrealism and Beckettian drama all set the stage for new understandings of what it is possible to achieve in the theatre which persist today. We will focus on three main questions: How did theatrical modernism disrupt received rules of representation at the theatre and beyond? How is the past approached in modernist and postmodernist theatre? And how does this disruption take part in new ideas about what it means to be human?听
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
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This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.
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