It is a glowingly photographed, impeccable performed magical realist drama .

Rutherford and Son (1912, realist drama)

Jolly writes comedies and realist dramas, but often with heightened language and characters that are self-aware.

He resolved the strict forms of the classical drama in a loose series of scenes that were a precursor of the realist drama.

It is notable in theatrical history for staging the première of Henrik Ibsen's first contemporary realist drama The Pillars of Society on 14 November 1877.

The big programs were coming out" - serious realist dramas like "Cathy Come Home" and earnest educational programming - "and you talked about that.

The retrospective is an opportunity to view her finely tuned application of the method across a range of styles, from realist drama to camp comedy.

Play for Today featured gritty contemporary social realist dramas, historical pieces, fantasies, biopics and science-fiction.

Ibsen moved to Munich in 1875 and began work on his first contemporary realist drama The Pillars of Society, first published and performed in 1877.

For all the magic in his plays, he was writing in the grand tradition of Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, the politically engaged, direct, social realist drama.