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American Theater - Coggle Diagram

- - - - commercialized Broadway
      - sentimental melodrama
      - sensationalist drama
      - exaggerated "realistic" stage settings
    - - artistic drama
      - innovative/experimental forms
      - psychological dispositions
      - sincere acting - "plays of true feeling"
      - simple but symbolic stage settings
  - - - Djuna Barnes
      - Neith Boyce
    - - George Cram Cook
      - Nina Moise
    - - Robert Edmund Jones
  - - - Edward Bierstadt: "the one-act play demands complete unity of thought, and any change in the time or place during the action tends to destroy this unity " (1923)
    - - (1916) "The play is an attempt to synthesize decoration, costumes, speech and and action into one mood. Starting from the idea that the play is symbolic, rather than representative of life. The Directors have designed the decoration to suggest, rather than to portray"
- - - - a murder has been happened and the actors try to find out who is the murderer