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Theatre of Silence

Silence, Theatre of

The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre | 1996 | | Copyright

Silence, Theatre of, term used for plays which, like those of Maeterlinck, who is regarded as the founder of the genre, and particularly of J.-J. Bernard, are important as much for what they omit from their dialogue as for what they actually say—a theatre, in fact, of pregnant pauses, during which the imagination of the audience supplies the missing ingredient, which is not only unexpressed but perhaps cannot be expressed in words. Hence the French term for this type of play, le théâtre de l'inexprimé. It is also known as the theatre of l'école intimiste.
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Theatre of Silence

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Theatre of Silence, see SILENCE, THEATRE OF.
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PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Theatre of Silence." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-TheatreofSilence.html

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