Anti-Realism in the Theatre

Anti-Realism in the Theatre: "Probably the setting exercises the strongest influence in expressionism. The tendency is to minimize the setting until it shall indicate only the absolute essentials of form and feature. The desire of the expressionistic playwright to objectify as tellingly as possible complex psychological states, particularly of an abnormal sort, has driven him to utilize stage devices, akin in their super-rationality to the devices of romantic staging, but dependent on the elaborate mechanical resources of the modern theatre for realization."