Abstract: Speaking in 1958, in the wake of his first stage success with Five Finger Exercise, Peter Shaffer described his theatrical project: 'I want to revive the magic and the rhetoric, all the things that make the audience go "Ooh!"'.1 For audiences who had seen Shaffer's breakthrough play, this may have seemed a curious statement given the determined and even old-fashioned naturalism of this drawing-room drama; six years later, for those who had experienced The Royal Hunt of the Sun, it would seem more curious still that a playwright who had created this 'total' theatrical experience could ever have written in the naturalistic format in the first place.KeywordsTheatre TheatricalTheatrical ProjectTheatrical DramaNaturalistic TraditionReal MomentThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Publication Year: 1998
Publication Date: 1998-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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