Chamber theater is a method of adapting literary works to the stage using a maximal amount of the work's original text and often minimal and suggestive settings.
Professor Robert S. Breen (1909-1991) introduced "Chamber Theater" to his Oral Interpretation Classes at Northwestern University in 1947.
Galati's chamber theater adaptation of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath won two Tony Awards on Broadway.
[2] One of the most renowned, elaborate examples of chamber theater is David Edgar's The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, in which Charles Dickens' characters narrate themselves in third person.
Set pieces are carried in and taken away during the performance, rather than between scenes, and objects may be represented in a mimetic manner.