Theatre

Theatre

Terms of or in relation to a collaborative form of fine art which uses live performances to express fictional or non-fictional stories to an audience in a particular place.

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dialogue

Performing arts; Theatre

Passages of speech between characters in a play.

harlequin

Performing arts; Theatre

Perhaps the best-known stock character to have originated from the Commedia dell'Arte. Originally a sharp-witted servant in Italy, he became a simpleton in France and a lackadaisical lover in the ...

tragedy

Performing arts; Theatre

Play dealing in an elevated poetic style with events which depict man as the victim of destiny, yet superior to it. In the modern sense, fate or destiny has come to be replaced by character flaw, ...

satire

Performing arts; Theatre

Play in which sarcasm, irony and ridicule are used expose or attack folly or pretension in government or society.

musical

Performing arts; Theatre

Play in which the story is told through a combination of spoken dialogue and musical numbers. Originally, the plot was slight and the musical numbers had little connection to, and did little to ...

mugging

Performing arts; Theatre

Playing obviously to the audience. See, also, corpsing.

Popular comedy in which horseplay and bodily assualt figure largely in contrived and often improbable situations. Farce has its antecedents in Greek satyr plays, the Roman fabula atellanae, and in ...