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 Defining TraitRestricted cast, mood over plot, intimate setting 1 In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Sweden, originated there.
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1. Chamber play - Wikipedia
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Strindberg coined the term in 1907 while preparing works for his newly founded Intimate Theatre in Stockholm
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a restricted cast of characters, an emphasis on mood rather than plot, and intimate settings
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