
Comedy
A story that has a happy ending. For example, it can be a very sad story. But if there is a happy ending, it would be considered "Comedy".
Mime
Silent performance with no speaking or words. Mime is performed by movement.
Farce
Uses visual action more than words, and was originated in France.
Burlesque
Adult-orientated entertainment, consisting of dancing, minimal costumes, songs and comic sketches. Popular from the 1840s in Europe and the USA.
Dinner Table
Watching a theatre performance while eating dinner at the same place.
Theatre of absurd
The Theatre of the Absurd is a post–World War II designation for particular plays of absurdist fiction written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1950s.
Agitprop
The main current sense of the word is simply "propaganda, especially socially or politically motivated propaganda appearing in literary works, films, etc.";