Theatre Geekery

Minimalism is nothing new to the theatre. After all, Greek theatre probably did not have much more than actors and a stage. However, as ...

Most people are used to traditional theatre where the roles of each theatre artist are typically given and they don't tend to cross int...

Satyr plays were bawdy farcical theatrical presentations. The creation of these plays is credited to the sixth century actor and dramatis...

The European Art Theatre movement began in the late 1880s. At this time, theatre-goers in Europe were seeking something that the commerci...

The Byzantine empire started in 476 A.D. after the fall of the Roman empire. Even though the Roman empire had fallen, Byzantines thought of...

The Little Theatre Movement took place in the United States from 1909 to 1929. The movement served a few purposes. First, it served the pu...

While many people use the term "second-hand drama" to refer to dramatic happenings that either occur because of a first instance ...

Burlesque is a form of literature and theatre that focuses on parodying other art forms. The literary use of the term was used in the 16th ...

Farces are plays that use highly improbably situations to entertain the audience. They tend to deliberately use humor and nonsense. They ...

Heroic Drama was part of restoration drama , particularly, restoration spectacular . This type of drama relied on opulent scenery. It was...

French Avant-Garde theatre started in the 1880s. It is certain that a Belgian playwright, Maurice Maetrlinck wrote The Blind in 1890. It...

Domestic drama (or Bourgeois drama) doesn't have one exact starting date. However, it is said to truly have started in the 18th century...

Modernist theatre is attributed to the fallout after World War I. Credit for the start of modernist theatre is often given to André Antoi...

Nothing would seem odd about a scene with a teenage girl sitting and writing in her diary. She covers that she doesn't like school and...

The curtain opens and a forest is seen on the stage. It doesn't hit you that the trees are fake unless you stare at them long enough t...

The origin of tragedy is credited to Thespis (where we get the word thespian, meaning actor). This was in 534 B.C. It is said that Thesp...

Virbatim Theatre is a form of Documentary Theatre . The difference between Virbatim Theatre and general Documentary Theatre is that in Virb...

Documentary theatre is a performance built by and individual or a group of theatre artists that comes from historical and/or archival mater...

Postmodernism originated in Europe in the middle of the twentieth century. In a postmodern play, it is common for the play to "step...

Expressionism orginially referred to painting. It was a German revolt against naturalism and academism in all the arts. The first ful...