Word: monodrama
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...Inventor of Monodrama...
...intense individuality and extreme originality Evreinov has proposed and applied a number of advanced ideas in theatrical art. Of these his most unusual invention is the monodrama, a type of play which endeavors to make the audience experience the emotions of the actor by conveying to it the inner workings of his soul...
...Introduction to Monodrama", Evreinov himself explains the fundamental purposes and aspects of his way of "thinking the theatre". "Among other things," writes the author", monodrama solves one of the most burning problems of contemporary art, namely, the problem of the chilling and paralyzing and distracting influences of the footlights. To abolish the footlights in reality, as some propose, does not mean yet to abolish them in our imagination; it must be done so that-the spectator, as if happening to find himself on the stage, that is, the place of action, will lose sight of the footlights; they will remain...
...play itself is a semi-fantastic; semi-realistic drama of life and expounds Mr. Evreinov's theory, known as monodrama. This theory, which is entirely original on the part of Mr. Evreinov, was first put into practice in Russia just before the Revolution. It is one of the few "theories" which have survived the general turmoil which has been evident in Russia in the last few years. The whole idea which Mr. Evreinov tries to impress on his audience is that drama to be forceful and effective must come nearer to the audience than it does at the present time...
...writer has allowed cleverness to take the place of common sense; the lovers discuss idealism with an ingenuity that is hopelessly literary. Mr. Britten discusses the charm of the sea, his point apparently being that such discussion is entirely profitless to anyone. Mr. Sheehan, in a sort of religious monodrama of three pages, sets forth cleverly the shortcomings of the monastic life. The rest of the verse is of the usual undergraduate variety; for the most part it consists in the rather ingenious phrasing of things which might nearly as well be left unsaid. The leading article, on "Student Guiding...