Many identifying terms supplied by authors or catalogers are idiosyncratic rather than common jargon in theatre, still they contribute to the investigator's search. Genre is a synonym for type or kind. It groups various literary works by form, technique, or subject matter into types or categories. The term, often loosely used, reflects numerous principles and kinds of literature. Traditionally, genres include the tragic, comedic, epic, lyric, pastoral.
Critics frequently regard genre distinctions as useful descriptive devices albeit arbitrary ones.
This can range from music to visual art to, most specifically, film and video. The two actors perform and interact onstage with eleven televisions. The televisions provide setting, take on characters, display text, and show a wide variety of file footage and other easily recognized images designed to generate an emotional and intellectual response from the audience. March 26, 1996. Sprechstuck a speaking, an autonomous prologue to an old play, not to revolutionize but to sensitize.