Characteristics and differences between avant-garde drama and traditional drama

1. Avant-garde drama features: anti-system, de-scripted and de-staged. Anti-system is mainly anti-Vietnam war and fighting for civil rights; De-scripting is to advocate collective improvisation; Leaving Taiwan means that the drama not only breaks through the fourth wall in front of the stage, but also rushes out of the theater and goes to the streets and squares. At that time, the most sensational plays were Paradise Now by Baker and Marina's Life Troupe and Dionysus in 1969 by Cheickna's Performance Troupe, all of which were of this style.

2, the characteristics of traditional drama:

Stage nature

Drama performances at all times and all over the world are completed with the help of the stage, which has many styles and has two purposes: one is to facilitate the actors to perform the plot, and the other is to facilitate the audience to enjoy it from all angles.

intuition

Drama first directly affects the audience's vision and hearing through the actors' gestures, actions, dialogues, monologues and other performances; Then use makeup, clothing and other means to shape the characters, so that the audience can directly appreciate the appearance characteristics of the characters in the play.

comprehensiveness

Drama is a comprehensive art, which is characterized by the need and adaptation to create a specific artistic image on the stage and directly show the social life scenes to the audience.

conversation

Drama is different from other dramas. It expresses plots, depicts characters and expresses themes through a large number of stage dialogues. There are monologues of the characters and dialogues of the audience, and the content of the drama is completed in a specific time and space.

3. The difference between the two is that the avant-garde drama is impromptu and has no stage.