Folk plays

Malanka (, or ) is a Ukrainian folk holiday celebrated on 31 December, which is New Year's Eve in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Formerly it was celebrated on 13 January corresponding to 31 December in the Julian calendar (see Old New Year). The festivities were historically centred around house-to-house visiting by groups of young men, costumed as characters from a folk tale of pre-Christian origin, as well as special food and drink. The context of the rituals has changed, but some elements continue to the present.

ritual and festive event celebrated in the village of Semezhava in the Minsk region of Belarus – inscribed in the List of Intangible Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding in 2009

Welsh folk custom

folk play

Saang, also known as Swang (meaning "imitation") or Svang, is a popular folk dance–theatre form and a traditional style of storytelling in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and the Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh. Swang incorporates suitable theatrics and mimicry (or naqal) accompanied by song and dialogue. It is dialogue-oriented rather than movement-oriented. Religious stories and folk tales are enacted by a group of ten or twelve persons in an open area or an open-air theatre surrounded by the audience. Swang as an art of imitation means Rang-Bharna, Naqal-Karna.

thumb|Bhavai, performance at Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal thumb|Bhavai, Artist

thumb|Batlejka booth in the Belarusian National History Museum thumb|Batlejka puppets in the Belarusian National History Museum thumb|Batlejka depicted on a Belarusian post stamp Batlejka (Batleyka; ) is a Belarusian amateur puppet theatre. Its name is derived from the city of Bethlehem and performances are traditionally given over the Christmas period.

ensemble of festive practices during Purim

mystery play series from the 14th to the 16th centuries

Terukkuttu is a Tamil street theatre form practised in Tamil Nadu (India) and Tamil-speaking regions of Sri Lanka. Terukuttu is a form of Koothu, an entertainment, a ritual, and a medium of social instruction, originated from the early Tamilakam. The terukkuttu plays various themes. One theme is from the Tamil language versions of the Hindu epic Mahabharata, focusing on the character Draupadi. The terms Terukkuttu and Kattaikkuttu are often used interchangeably in the modern times; however, historically the two terms appear to have distinguished, at least in certain villages, between two diffe

Maach is a form of folk theatre from the Malwa region of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

sindhi folk art form