The book The Theatre Through Its Stage Door describes techniques used to advance this theatrical movement in the play The Girl of the Golden West. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this theatrical movement. Konstantin Stanislavski considered himself to be practicing the “psychological” form of this movement, which overlapped with naturalism.
ANSWER: realism [accept psychological realism]
[10h] This American realist playwright and director wrote The Theatre Through Its Stage Door, as well as The Girl of the Golden West.
ANSWER: David Belasco
[10e] David Belasco wrote a play about this character whose rejection by Pinkerton inspired a later David Henry Hwang play which reimagines this character as the cross-dressing male Chinese opera singer Song Liling.
ANSWER: Madame Butterfly
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