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Drama Half-Term essay/ Discuss Craig's vision of an ideal theatre including - * Total theatre * The role of the director * The performer (uber marionette) * The staging (kinetic theatre) * Movement Edward Gordon Craig revolutionised 20th Century theatre with his 19th Century ideas. Craig saw the need to break naturalistic conventions - move away from a text based theatre and develop an art where all elements of drama worked in harmony and sought to create a theatre based on sound, lighting and movement coming together to form a unified stage picture. Craig had always been surrounded by Victorian theatre, all of which included realistic sets - and therefore imitated the real world. But Craig believed that theatre should contrast with the reality of the real world, making it a whole new and exciting experience to the audience. It was through this that Craig put forward a belief of a unified stage picture. During Victorian times, actors...

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