Expressionism In Drama
Showing students studying drama extracts from expressionist plays such as Elmer Rice's The Adding Machine, Eugene O'Neil's The Hairy Ape or Oskar Kokoschka's Murder, Hope of Women in contrast to the naturalistic plays of the late 19th century, such as Ibsen's A Doll's House shows how much drama changed - particularly in being free to be less 'realistic' in how it presented life.
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a contemporary production of The Adding Machine
Show students examples of expressionist set designs, such as The Adding Machine, The Hairy Ape and The Road to Damascus.
The film 1985 film version of Death of a Salesman with Dustin Hoffman slides between expressionist and naturalistic design, depending on the central character's state of mind. You could show students contrasting clips, and ask how the film sends signals about how Willy Loman moves from reality to fantasy, thinking about set design, music, editing, lighting and acting. You could ask to design an expressionist set for the play they are studying.