Modern Drama

For this week's class discussion we talked about modern drama and we were assigned to do a little research of our own and write a blog about it.  At first I typed in "Modern Theater" to the google search engine.  All that gave back was information about how the "modern theater" is built, or broadway plays.  So then I changed my search to Modern Drama and that returned more of what I wanted.  

I learned that to modernists the theater or drama is the best way to express their ideal's and beliefs, the web site i read said this, 

"It might seem an exaggeration to ascribe to the modern drama such an important rôle. But a study of the development of modern ideas in most countries will prove that the drama has succeeded in driving home great social truths, truths generally ignored when presented in other forms."

They talked about how the modern drama is what started the modern awakening in most countries like the US, England, and Germany.  However what I thought was interesting was that it said that the modern drama was not needed in France or Russia because these two places had already been awakened to the ideas and thoughts of Modernism because of their political turmoil.  

At one point the writer of the article I read talked about Socialism and how wonderful socialism is, but how uneducated people rarely understand the greatness of it. I found this to be very interesting!  The writer was trying to spread the ideas of Modernism around, but his idea was of socialism and fairness for all.  And he believed that through plays these same ideas can be understood and portrayed to those watching.  It was a very interesting read, and even though I don't agree with his own personal views, it is good to know other peoples ideas and beliefs.