THET 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Henrik Ibsen, Sarah Ruhl, Lynn Nottage
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Characters were believable and meant to be everyday characters. Authentic costumes were key to have due to realism theme. Realism theatre from the late 19th century has influenced many of the plays we see today in the. Sweat by lynn nottage, the clean house by sarah ruhl and disgraced by ayad. Akhtar were 21st realism plays that used 19 th century realism within the plays and it also displays people gathering around together in a specific location. Plays were often featured indoors in order to have the real life setting. Henrik ibsen"s play a doll"s house was a play and a book script that m ade ibsen be considered as the father of modern realism within theatre. The settings for these plays were often ordinary. In theatre, a box set is an arch with three walls and an invi sible fourth wall. Box sets were meant to create illusions for those watching.