Theatrical genres

thumb|The classical Punjabi tragedy of Heer Ranjha, one of the four classic tragedies of [[Punjabi folklore; the tragedy's epic form by Waris Shah is regarded as one of the greatest pieces of Punjabi literature]]

stage work that combines songs, music, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance

thumb|250px|Mélodrame, painted by Honoré Daumier between 1855 and 1860, depicting a typical Parisian scene on [[Boulevard du Temple]]

comedy style where the performer addresses the audience directly

thumb|Tragic Comic masks of Ancient Greek theatre represented in the [[Hadrian's Villa mosaic.]]

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thumb|300px|Burlesque on Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ|Ben-Hur, A burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects. The word is loaned from French and derives from the Italian ', which, in turn, is derived from the Italian ' – a joke, ridicule or mockery.

Christian-themed medieval European drama

ancient form of entertainment using flat articulated figures

British duo, Victorian-era theatrical partnership

someone who uses mime as a theatrical medium or in performance art

depiction of everyday experience in art and entertainment

A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance, and sketches. The revue has its roots in 19th century popular entertainment and melodrama but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from 1916 to 1932. Though most famous for their visual spectacle, revues frequently satirized contemporary figures, news or literature. Similar to the related subforms of operetta and musical theatre, the revue art form brings together music, dance and sketches to create a compelling show. In contrast to these, however, revue does not

television genre characterized by a series of specialty acts such as music, dance, comedy, magic, acrobatics and ventriloquism

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genre of Medieval and early Tudor theatrical entertainment

room in a house where visitors may be entertained

thumb|upright|Costume for a Knight, by Inigo Jones: the plumed helmet, the "[[heroic cuirass" in armour and other conventions were still employed for opera seria in the 18th century.]]

type of British theatrical entertainment popular between 1850 and 1960

static scene containing one or more actors or models

dramatic presentation depicting the Passion of Jesus Christ

'''Ta'ziyeh, also spelled as ta'zieh''' ( , from Arabic , 'condolence'), is a dramatic art form of Iran, performed by Shia Muslims, and historically also called shabih-khani ( ), though this term is less commonly used today .

plays and playmaking in the Middle Ages

Christmas-based theatrical genre

theatre in the Pigalle area of Paris

thumb|The Christmas Pantomime colour lithograph book cover, 1890, showing [[harlequinade characters]] Pantomime (; informally panto) is a type of musical comedy stage production designed for family entertainment, generally combining broad and topical humour and cross-dressing actors with a story more or less based on a well-known fairy tale, fable or folk tale. Pantomime is a participatory form of theatre developed in England in the 18th century in which the audience is encouraged and expected to sing along with certain parts of the music and to shout out phrases to the performers.

surrealist form of theatre

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A sainete (farce or titbit) was a popular Spanish comic opera piece, a one-act dramatic vignette, with music. It was often placed at the end of entertainments, or between other types of performance. It was vernacular in style, and used scenes of low life. Active from the 18th to 20th centuries, it superseded the entremés. Among its most prolific composers were Ramón de la Cruz and Antonio Soler.

British social realist artistic movement

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thumb|"La Tonadillera", gouache painting by Carlos Raygada. Tonadilla was a Spanish musical song form of theatrical origin; not danced. The genre was a type of short, satirical musical comedy popular in 18th-century Spain, and later in Cuba and other Spanish colonial countries.

Comédie-ballet is a genre of French drama which mixes a spoken play with interludes containing music and dance.

thumb|Poster by Alfred Choubrac for an 1890 [[Théâtre du Châtelet production of La Biche au bois]] Féerie (), sometimes translated as "fairy play", was a French theatrical genre known for fantasy plots and spectacular visuals, including lavish scenery and mechanically worked stage effects. Féeries blended music, dancing, pantomime, and acrobatics, as well as magical transformations created by designers and stage technicians, to tell stories with clearly defined melodrama-like morality and an extensive use of supernatural elements. The genre developed in the early 19th century and became immens

A sotie (or sottie) is a short satirical play common during the 15th- and 16th-century in France. The word (compare modern sottise) comes from the sots, "fools", who appeared as characters in the play. In the plays, these fools would make observations and exchange thoughts on contemporary events and individuals. Shorter plays, sometimes referred to as parades, did not necessarily have any plot at all, but relied simply on a detached dialogue. The genre has its origin in the Feast of Fools and other Carnival-related festivities. The purpose of these events was to present a world turned upside-d

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In 16th- and 17th-century Spanish drama, an entremés (plural entremeses) was a short, comic theatrical performance of one act, usually played during the interlude of a performance of a long dramatic work. The entremés form later evolved into the sainete.

theatrical aesthetic which emerged from the boulevards of Paris's old city

theatre that is experimental in style or subject matter

folk play

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style of drama

German avant-garde theater

theatrical entertainment which began in Paris towards the end of the 17th century

Small stage made of paper on which the technical diversity of a human stage can be imitated or tested in model form.

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In North America, a sideshow is an extra, secondary production associated with a circus, carnival, fair, or other such attraction. They historically featured human oddity exhibits (so-called “freak shows”), preserved specimens (real or fabricated, such as the Fiji Mermaid), live animal acts, burlesque or strip shows, actually or ostensibly dangerous stunts, or stunts that appear painful like human blockhead.

figure in wayang performance of Indonesia

In theatre, methexis (; also methectics), is "group sharing". Originating from Greek theatre, the audience participates, creates and improvises the action of the ritual.

dramatic genre in which the protagonist seeks revenge

short play often performed before main play in Spanish Baroque theater

Gross-out is described as a movement in art (often with comical connotations), which is intended to shock the viewer(s) and disgust the wider audience by presenting them with controversial material (such as toilet humor and fetishes) that might be ill received by a mainstream audience.

(also rendered shimpa) is a modern form of theater in Japan usually featuring melodramatic stories, contrasted with the more traditional kabuki style. Taking its start in the 1880s, it later spread to cinema.

Short humorous story, play, song, opera, etc.

thumb|A moritat singer in [[Basel depicted in a 19th-century drawing]] ' (; also spelled , or ') comes from Italian for "story-singer" and is known by many other names around the world. It is a theatrical form where a performer tells or sings a story while gesturing to a series of images. These images can be painted, printed or drawn on any sort of material.

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form of dramatic literature

division and subdivisions of various forms of theater

Form of guerrilla communication