The great expressionist experiment: theatre seizes the essence of life
A number of productions are dragging British theatre away from the grip of realism " with sensational results"Expressionist" is one of those handy terms that we critics use rather promiscuously. Historically, it was coined by a French painter in 1901 to suggest an alternative to impressionism. Later it was applied to a school of European dramatists in the years from 1907 to 1925. Now it is widely applied to anything …