Great List of Theatre Practices!

Found this post on another blog site about the theatre RI. I think however it is useful for all theatre IA's.
(http://ibta.webs.com/researchinvestigation.htm)


There are several main Theatrical styles you could pick from:

Naturalism: Portraying life on stage with a close attention to detail, based on observation of real life.

Realism: Portraying characters on stage that are close to real life, with realistic settings and staging.

Expressionism: Anti-realistic in seeing appearance as distorted and the truth lying within man. The outward appearance on stage can be distorted and unrealistic to portray an eternal truth.

Absurdism: Presents a perspective that all human attempts at significance are illogical. Ultimate truth is chaos with little certainty. There is no necessity that need drive us.

Modernism: A broad concept that sees art, including theatre, as detached from life in a pure way and able to reflect on life critically.

Postmodernism: There are multiple meanings, and meaning is what you create, not what is. This approach often uses other media and breaks accepted conventions and practices.


Theatre movements and styles

• Avant-garde theatre
• Black light theatre
• Box house
• Burlesque
• Café-théâtre
• Cantastoria
• Chamber theatre
• Chavittunatakam
• City comedy
• Comedia dell'arte
• Contextual Theatre
• Corporeal mime
• Dinner theatre
• Documentary theatre
• Entremés
• Forum Theatre
• Guerrilla theatre
• Illusionistic tradition
• Improvisational theatre
• In-yer-face theatre
• Interactive theatre
• Intercultural theatre
• Invisible theatre
• Immersive Theatre
• Kabuki
• Kathakali
• Kitchen sink realism
• Legitimate theatre
• Little Theatre Movement
• Madrigal dinner
• Masque
• Medieval theatre
• Melodrama
• Mime
• Monopolylogue
• Morality play
• Mummers Play
• Music hall
• Pantomime
• Participatory theatre
• Political theatre
• Postdramatic theatre
• Postmodern theater
• Randai
• Reader's theatre
• Revenge play
• Shadow play
• Sideshow
• Site Sepcific Theatre
• Ta'zieh
• Tableau vivant
• Teatro di narrazione
• Theatre of Cruelty
• Theatre of the Absurd
• Theatre of the Oppressed
• Toy Theatre
• Variety show
• Vaudeville
• Verbatim Theatre
• Well-made play