Chamber play

A stage play is a spectacle in the intimate setting, usually with a few actors on the stage, without supernumeraries or large decorating effort. Chamber games have a psychological orientation in the rule and put their focus on the effect of the conversations between the characters. Even for movies, the term is sometimes used (see chamber feature film).

August Strindberg has the term chamber play: used (Swedish kammarspel ). His 1907 written pieces Oväder, Brända tomten, Spöksonaten, pelicans, and Svarta handsken ( 1908-1909 ) he called in allusion to musical tracks chamber Games Opus I -V.

Similar to the expression of chamber music is meant by the chamber of the chamber game tended to an " aristocratic " Appeal (see Kammerschauspieler ), less a modest than an exclusive setting. Therefore, one means by intimate play in general, neither the entertainment mixture of cabaret or an avant-garde way of making theater - but tasteful craft in great concentration, often in connection with the quality standards of stage naturalism.

Chamber games as institutions and theater building there is in some cities. This is usually a smaller, alternative performance space meant for a big stage. The stylistic range is quite large. The intimate theater of the Deutsches Theater Berlin, the Schauspielhaus Bochum and the Munich Chamber games offer sophisticated director's theater, the Vienna Chamber Games neat Boulevard theater.

Derived from the chamber play the genre of chamber drama film has evolved in the silent film era.