There are a variety of theatrical styles used in theatre and drama. These include
Naturalism: Portraying life on stage with a close attention to detail, based on observation of real life.
Realism: Portraying characters on stage that are close to real life, with realistic settings and staging.
Expressionism: Anti-realistic in seeing appearance as distorted and the truth lying within man. The outward appearance on stage can be distorted and unrealistic to portray an eternal truth.
Absurdism: Presents a perspective that all human attempts at significance are illogical. Ultimate truth is chaos with little certainty. There is no necessity that need drive us.
Modernism: A broad concept that sees art, including theatre, as detached from life in a pure way and able to reflect on life critically.
Postmodernism: There are multiple meanings, and meaning is what you create, not what is. This approach often uses other media and breaks accepted conventions and practices.
I then sketch some claims about theatricalstyles that are prompted by reflection upon the project and that are in tension with standard philosophical accounts of style.
Whatever may be the case in other art forms, theatrical work can be convincing because the aims and conventions adopted are owned by the performers, a circumstance that can arise when performers have made all the basic creative decisions, even though they are self-consciously working under the influence of some prior originators aims and conventions.
Since the aims of a style are what generate the need for the conventions that in retrospect come to be seen as characteristic of author, movement, and so on, it is clear that the first claim commits us to analyzing the artists role in developing an adequate philosophical account of style.
Others notable for their contribution to theatrical philosophy are Konstantin Stanislavski, Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, Orson Welles, Peter Brook, Jerzy Grotowski.
"Physical theatre" Theatrical performance in which the primary means of communication is the body, through dance, mime, puppetry and movement, rather than the spoken word.
The general consensus of most American style guides is to use "theater", unless the word is part of the proper name of a performing arts facility or company [1][2][3].
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