Modern playwrights such as Kopit, Becket, Genet, Pinter, and Albee experimented by taking comedy in new directions. List the nonrealistic conventions which audiences accepted throughout the history of drama. Identify at least three playwrights of the new nonrealism. Elements of Realistic and Nonrealistic Drama 10. The action of realistic plays presents only the last part of the story.
Nonrealistic drama requires a rigid plot structure.
Realistic plays regularly employ flashbacks. The characters in nonrealistic drama can play several roles in the same play. There can be flat characters in realistic plays and round characters in nonrealistic ones. Both a and c. 12. Most plays may be either highly realistic or nonrealistic, but still retain elements of the other b. Realism may be modified through symbolism and selective emphasis.