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    Chamber theatre is a method of adapting literature for the stage that uses most of the original text with minimal settings. It is characterized by narration included in the performed text and multiple actors taking on the narrator role. Professor Robert Breen introduced chamber theatre at Northwestern University in 1947, and professor Frank Galati has since directed acclaimed chamber theatre productions of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and other works. Chamber theatre aims to represent settings and objects mimetically using suggestive props that are brought on and off stage during a performance.

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    Chamber theatre is a method of adapting literature for the stage that uses most of the original text with minimal settings. It is characterized by narration included in the performed text and multiple actors taking on the narrator role. Professor Robert Breen introduced chamber theatre at Northwestern University in 1947, and professor Frank Galati has since directed acclaimed chamber theatre productions of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and other works. Chamber theatre aims to represent settings and objects mimetically using suggestive props that are brought on and off stage during a performance.

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    Chamber Theatre Is A Method of Adapting Literary Works To The Stage Using A Maximal Amount of The Work's Original Text and Often Minimal

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    Chamber theatre is a method of adapting literature for the stage that uses most of the original text with minimal settings. It is characterized by narration included in the performed text and multiple actors taking on the narrator role. Professor Robert Breen introduced chamber theatre at Northwestern University in 1947, and professor Frank Galati has since directed acclaimed chamber theatre productions of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and other works. Chamber theatre aims to represent settings and objects mimetically using suggestive props that are brought on and off stage during a performance.

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    Chamber theatre is a method of adapting literary works to the stage using a maximal amount of the work's original text

    and often minimal and suggestive settings. In Chamber Theater, narration is included in the performed text and the narrator might be played by multiple actors . Professor Robert S. Breen (1909-1991) introduced "Chamber Theater" to his Oral Interpretation Classes atNorthwestern University in 1947. Northwesterns Professor of Performance Studies Frank Galati, who studied Chamber Theater with Dr. Breen, has directed highly acclaimed Chamber Theater Productions for the Goodman Theater and Steppenwolf Theater Companies in Chicago. Galatis Chamber Theater adaptation of John Steinbecks The Grapes of Wrath won two Tony Awards on Broadway. One of the most famous and elaborate examples of chamber theatre is David Edgar's The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, in which Charles Dickens's characters narrate themselves in third person. Set pieces are carried in and taken away during the performance, rather than between scenes, and objects may be represented in a mimetic manner. Another example isMatthew Spangler's stage adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's novel The Kite Runner.

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