What makes up a realistic production? It’s hard to come up with a ‘recipe’, but there are a number of important elements that you might expect to be present: ...

Putting authors and artists in categories may help pinpoint their work in socio-cultural and stylistic terms, but is inevitably restrictive of literature's essential universality. In South America, ...

Ruby Cohn assumes realism to be the dominant mode in English theatre since 1956, the year of John Osbourne's Look Back in Anger. She argues, however, that the most provocative plays of the last few ...

The stranglehold which realism has on the modern theatre is leading to the deterioration of drama, acting, and imagination, John Burrell told a scant audience at New Lecture Hall yesterday.