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Chamber Play

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A chamber play is a play of usually three acts that can be performed with a small cast and practically no sets or costumes in a small performance space. The form rose to prominence in the early twentieth century through the work of Max Reinhardt and August Strindberg, its name borrowed from the musical term chamber music to reflect its intimate, small scale, and the approach was later carried into cinema through Kammerspielfilm adaptations in the 1920s and filmmakers such as Ingmar Bergman and Carl Theodor Dreyer.

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Place of Origin
Sweden 1
Defining Trait
Restricted cast, mood over plot, intimate setting 1
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1. Chamber play - Wikipedia
  • Search summary, origin paragraph
    Strindberg coined the term in 1907 while preparing works for his newly founded Intimate Theatre in Stockholm
  • Search summary, definition paragraph
    a restricted cast of characters, an emphasis on mood rather than plot, and intimate settings
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