Course Description & Objectives:
- The course explores the main trends and developments in theatre during the twentieth century.
- It examines the content, techniques and ideologies of major theatre movements during the
- century and tries to account for them in terms of the experiences and concerns of the century.
- An attempt is made to view twentieth-century theatre activity on a global scale.
- Theatre and the Main Characteristics of the Twentieth Century
- Psychoanalysis and Psychological Theatre
- Towards a Socially-Committed Theatre
- Experiments in Socialist Realistic Theatre
- Brecht and the Essence of Epic Theatre
- Theatre of the Absurd
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