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| Spoken (as opposed to sung) portion of the text of a musical play |
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| Satire of a serious form of literature |
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| branch of avant-garde theatre stressing the environment in which a performance takes place |
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| Term applied to plays illustrating a philosophy whose modern advocate was Jean-Paul Sartre and which holds that there are no longer any fixed standards or values |
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| Nonliterary or unscripted theatrical event using a scenario that allows for chance occurences |
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| use of electronic media, such as slides, film, and videotape, in live theatrical presentations. |
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| Broad category that includes opera, operetta, musical comedy, and other musical plays |
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| Term coined by Jerzy Grotowski to describe his theatre, which was stripped to the bare essentials |
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| 20th century Japanese theatre that incorporated western ideas about playwriting and theatre production |
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| non sequiters, nonsensical language, existential characters, ridiculous situations--these are hallmarks of this theater: "waiting for godot" by samuel beckett |
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| major african american playwright: Joe Turner's come and gone |
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