For other uses of this term, see Naturalism (disambiguation).
Naturalism corresponds to a type of staging and interpretation of the late nineteenth, early twentieth century that seeks to reproduce with a certain scientific precision human nature through acting techniques. Interest in these techniques flourished mainly among the French playwrights of the time as Emile Zola, but his most representative work is Miss Julia by August Strindberg. The term used by Zola was the nouvelle formule, and its three principles (faire vrai, faire grand, faire simple) were oriented first to interpret in the most understandably certain way possible (the main stage of Miss Julia is a kitchen , for example), secondly that the conflicts of the work must have much relevance, and third in that the work must be simple.
The naturalist staging was opposed to the expressionist and was increasingly frequent especially after the arrival of cinema. Later The Method taught among others by Actor's Studio tended to focus on acting in a more realistic than naturist way: the object is not to "represent" the truth, but to get its essence and therefore a deep sense of the frame dramaturgic that naturalism tends to ignore.
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