Theatre Of The Grotesque
The Theatre of the Grotesque was a twentieth-century dramatic movement.Fearnow, Mark. ''The American Stage and the Great Depression''. Cambridge University Press, 2006 It is a theatrical style that was developed as a derivative to the late eighteenth-century art movement 'Grotesque' and thus translates the themes and images of the grotesque art into theatrical practices. 'Theatre of the Grotesque' rejects Naturalism (literature), naturalism through surreal comedy, reconciling conventionally conflicting concepts. This style of theatre was popularised globally in the early twentieth century through a strong presence in the Italian theatre scene.Calendoli, Giovani. "Theatre of the Grotesque". ''The Drama Review'', vol 22, no. 1, 1978, pp. 13-16., Accessed 11 Apr 2019 'Theatre of the Grotesque' reached its global peak of prominence in the mid-twentieth century. Despite not being frequently produced in pure form in contemporary theatre, 'Theatre of the Grotesque' has remained influenti ...
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Grotesque
Since at least the 18th century (in French and German as well as English), grotesque has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, mysterious, magnificent, fantastic, hideous, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting, and thus is often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms such as Halloween masks. In art, performance, and literature, however, ''grotesque'' may also refer to something that simultaneously invokes in an audience a feeling of uncomfortable bizarreness as well as sympathetic pity. The English word first appears in the 1560s as a noun borrowed from French, and comes originally from the Italian ''grottesca'' (literally "of a cave" from the Italian ''grotta'', 'cave'; see grotto), an extravagant style of ancient Roman decorative art rediscovered at Rome at the end of the fifteenth century and subsequently imitated. The word was first used of paintings found on the walls of basements of ruins in Rome that were called at that time ''le Gro ...
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