The post-war Theater witnessed the alterations that the whole world underwent in the course of the Second World War. Right after the war, the European theatrical scenes were occupied by the plays of three authors. They are Tennessee Williams with his “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, Jean-Paul Sartre with “No Exit”, and Samuel Becket “Waiting for Godot”;
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Modern Theatre comes from the European Renaissance Theatre of the 16th-17th centuries that dates back to the Ancient Greek and Roman Theatre. Its foundation was laid down in England and Italy, especially by the English Renaissance Theatre between in the period between Reformation and theatre closure in 1642;
The beginning of the 19th century was swept by the never-before-seen cultural movement known as Romanticism. One of the first European dramatists who got himself involved in this process was August Schlegel that considered W. Shakespeare the greatest playwright;
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The newest Modern Theater has been lasting since the end of the 1960s. The year of 1968 changed the globe completely. The conflict in Czechoslovakia and war in Vietnam led to serious social and political aftermaths. The Theater could not stay away from them. Inside the US Theater, the split took place upon questions of change and innovation that Modern Theater was in need. The surprising fact is that Western Theaters remained economically lucrative while passing through a series of changes.
American theater was occupied by Lorraine Hansberry with her drama "A Raisin in the Sun". She provided the story of dreams being destroyed in the course of intensive social transformations.
Two German playwrights are the heroes of that period. They are Heinar Muller with his "Hamletmachine" and Bertolt Brecht with his world-known masterpieces, including "The Threepenny Opera", and "Drums in the Night".
In France, the general theatrical tendency was toward decentralization. French organized performances in the countryside with actors traveling like in the Medieval Times.
Britain establishes two largest theater companies. They are Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theater that took the place of two most famous national Theaters.
Still, as wee see, the Theater underwent all economic difficulties and defaults having got rid of everything unnecessary and acquired new standards and principles.