What is a theatre style?

We talked about Level NCEA today - currently we have been studying musicals [and this will be in the year 10 exam at the end of the year]. We finished watching High School Musical 2, you will need to write about one musical you know well in the exam.
 Here is a swimming pool scene on stage.

This is the description for tone of the Level 1 exams. 

Demonstrate understanding of features of a drama/theatre form

4 credits

External

1          A drama/theatre form could include but is not limited to:

·         clowning

·         Elizabethan theatre

·         Greek theatre

·         kabuki theatre

·         medieval drama

·         melodrama

·         mime

·         musical theatre

·         pantomime

·         puppetry.

2          Features of the form could include but are not limited to:

·         performance space (eg medieval use of pageant wagons)

·         acting styles (eg the extravagant gestures of Commedia dell’Arte)

·         themes or ideas (eg the Elizabethan wheel of fortune)

·         purpose (eg medieval exploration of Bible stories)

·         conventions (eg use of asides in melodrama)

·         use of technologies (eg mask in Greek theatre)

·         historical/social context (eg the Great Depression in New Zealand theatre).