Drama Glossary
Key theatre terms and definitions including related shows.
Experimental theatre that began in France in the mid-nineteenth century as a reaction against accepted traditional theatre and dramatic ideas.
A public definition of beliefs, intentions, and aims.
A movement in European drama and theatre that developed in the late 19th that seeks to mirror life completely truthfully.
Not closely imitating or based on real life or nature.
An investigation of truth, existence, or morality that uses rational and logical thought
A theatrical movement developed alongside naturalism, which aimed to be more truthful to real life through texts and performances.
The idea that everything that happens in nature is determined completely by previously existing causes.
A literary, artistic and revolutionary movement, founded in Paris during the 1920s.
A literary device that uses a word or phrase to represent another, often abstract, idea.
The theory that all the kinds of living things that exist today have developed from earlier types, as proposed by Charles Darwin in 1859.
The theory that all drama must follow the three unities set out by the Greek philosopher Aristotle: action, place, and time.
A theatre established in Paris in 1893 that was home to French symbolist writers.