Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The New Spirit in Drama Art
My own idea of the finest form of national drama which this country will see adopted comprises a rhythmic concep tion of play, player, decoration, and music. This drama will be represented in a rhythmic form of theatre. Everything henceforth is to be orchestrated to produce a single but infinitely varied total e?ect. We need a stage which lends itself to the simple and single vision, that brings even the most unintelligent spectator into the action of the drama and holds him there, that promotes a direction of effort on the part of all concerned which will unify the results.
It will be found that the present search in Europe is for artistic rather than for rhythmic results. The pioneers of the new movement are chie?y concerned with attaining artistic simplification, unity, and suggestion. They are interpreting these ideas in the endeavour to bring order and beauty into the theatre. So far they have not made the attempt to seize the great rhythm of life and to set the theatre and drama in motion with it. But this will come. Their exact interpre tation of the new ideas will be found in the chapter entitled Summary and Suggestions.
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