Category: Styles

Magical realism (sometimes referred to as magic realism) is a term first used in the art world by German critic Franz Roh (1925) and later in literature by Cuban author Alejo Carpentier (1949). Characteristics of…

A jukebox musical is a musical theatre work centring on a collection of songs, usually by a single artist or group. Typically these songs are part of the back catalogue of a well-known singer or…

A whodunit or whodunnit (for “Who [has] done it?” or “Who did it?”) is a complex, plot-driven variety of the detective story in which the audience is given the opportunity to engage in the same…

Physical theatre is a genre of theatrical performance that pursues storytelling through primarily physical means. Several performance traditions all describe themselves as “physical theatre”, but the unifying aspect is a reliance on physical motion of…