Trends In Drama
"Modern drama is intended I both to shock and to disturb the audience,” said Mr M. G. 1 Thompson, a lecturer in Eng- , lish at the University of Can- i terbury, in an address to the I Canterbury branch of the New i Zealand Association of Teachers of Speech and Drama. , Speaking on “Trends in Re- I cent Drama,” Mr Thompson i traced the development of i drama from Ibsen to the i 19605. 1 Dramatists’ techniques varied from the traditional at- < tempt to involve the audience, i to a revolutionary concept of i deliberate alienation as in ' Brecht, he said. Mesdames J. Harvest and J. i Askew and Mr Thompson read i from “Look Back in Anger." i
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31676, 11 May 1968, Page 19
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