Syncratic Theatre = Theatre that blends boundaries
1) Absurdism
2) African Folk and Popular Theatre
3) American Burlesque
4) Arabian Shadow Puppets
5) Austrian Marionette Theatre
6) Balinese Dance Drama
7) Beijing Opera/ Peking Opera
8) Botswana Mask Theatre
9) Brecht's Epic Theatre
10) Bunraku Puppetry
11) Butoh*
12) Cantonese Opera
13) Carnivale
14) Comedy of Manners
15) Commedia Dell' Arte *
16) Elizabethan Theatre*
17) English Music Hall
18) French Farce
19) German Expressionism
20) German Romanticism
21) Greek Comedy
22) Greek Tragedy*
23) Grosso Criollo
24) Indonesian Tari
25) Irish Theatre
26) Kabuki
27) Karagoz (Turkish Shadow Puppetry)
28) Kathakali
29) Korean Mask Dance
30) Kuttiyattam
31) Legong Kraton
32) Medieval Theatre: Mystery, Morality, Passion Plays
33) Native American Storytelling
34) Naturalism/ Realism
35) Noh Theatre
36) Pantomime
37) Rakugo Japanese 'sit down' theatre
38) Restoration Comedy
39) Roman Comedy
40) Roman Theatre
41) Romanian Marionettes
42) Sanskrit Theatre
43) Simcheongga Korean Storytelling
44) South African Apartheid Theatre
45) Spanish Farce
46 Sri Lankan folk ritual and dance drama
47) Thai Nang Yai
48) Theatre of Cruelty
49) Vaudeville
50) Victorian Melodrama
51) Vietnamese Water Puppets
52) Yiddish Theatre
This list is not exhaustive but instead offers a starting place for looking around.
1) Absurdism
2) African Folk and Popular Theatre
3) American Burlesque
4) Arabian Shadow Puppets
5) Austrian Marionette Theatre
6) Balinese Dance Drama
7) Beijing Opera/ Peking Opera
8) Botswana Mask Theatre
9) Brecht's Epic Theatre
10) Bunraku Puppetry
11) Butoh*
12) Cantonese Opera
13) Carnivale
14) Comedy of Manners
15) Commedia Dell' Arte *
16) Elizabethan Theatre*
17) English Music Hall
18) French Farce
19) German Expressionism
20) German Romanticism
21) Greek Comedy
22) Greek Tragedy*
23) Grosso Criollo
24) Indonesian Tari
25) Irish Theatre
26) Kabuki
27) Karagoz (Turkish Shadow Puppetry)
28) Kathakali
29) Korean Mask Dance
30) Kuttiyattam
31) Legong Kraton
32) Medieval Theatre: Mystery, Morality, Passion Plays
33) Native American Storytelling
34) Naturalism/ Realism
35) Noh Theatre
36) Pantomime
37) Rakugo Japanese 'sit down' theatre
38) Restoration Comedy
39) Roman Comedy
40) Roman Theatre
41) Romanian Marionettes
42) Sanskrit Theatre
43) Simcheongga Korean Storytelling
44) South African Apartheid Theatre
45) Spanish Farce
46 Sri Lankan folk ritual and dance drama
47) Thai Nang Yai
48) Theatre of Cruelty
49) Vaudeville
50) Victorian Melodrama
51) Vietnamese Water Puppets
52) Yiddish Theatre
This list is not exhaustive but instead offers a starting place for looking around.