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Richard Wagner's Bayreuth Festival Theatre.. A wide range of movements existed in the theatrical culture of Europe and the United States in the 19th century. In the West, they include Romanticism, melodrama, the well-made plays of Scribe and Sardou, the farces of Feydeau, the problem plays of Naturalism and Realism, Wagner's operatic Gesamtkunstwerk, Gilbert and Sullivan's plays and operas ...
Types of acts have included popular and classical musicians, singers, dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, ventriloquists, strongmen, female and male impersonators, acrobats, clowns, illustrated songs, jugglers, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels, and films. A vaudeville performer is often ...
A number of other plays from the period survive, including La Seinte Resurrection , The Play of the Magi Kings , and Sponsus . The importance of the High Middle Ages in the development of theatre was the economic and political changes that led to the formation of guilds and the growth of towns.
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; ... The decade 1900s in theatre, i.e. the years 1900 to 1909. ... 1900s plays (12 C, 1 P)
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Twentieth-century theatre describes a period of great change within the theatrical culture of the 20th century, mainly in Europe and North America. There was a widespread challenge to long-established rules surrounding theatrical representation; resulting in the development of many new forms of theatre, including modernism, expressionism, impressionism, political theatre and other forms of ...
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