Drama Term Tuesday #1

Boulevard Theatre

Developed on the streets of Paris in the late 18th century, popular and bourgeois theatre companies set up on the Boulevard du Temple, performing crime stories and melodramas.

Fireworks, clowning and pantomime added to the boulevard repertoire, which developed into the commercial theatre of Paris.

Has also come to mean light commercial theatre.

See also French theatre.

Excerpt From: Drama Key Terms and Concepts.