Sarugaku helped give rise to the Nō and kyogen forms of drama.
The greatest ones have been creators of great dance theater, making pure dance into new forms of drama.
The shows tend to be well-produced, by-the-numbers crime dramas because those shows can be repeated better than other forms of drama, like serialized soap operas.
Concurrent with the national forms of drama mentioned before, local opera is found in every area of China (the different forms have been estimated at 300).
Hundreds of thousands of ordinary Chinese in the army were exposed to modern forms of drama for the first time, and, equally significant, artists discovered regional folk legends, songs, and dances, which they then incorporated into their work.
For the next five years, Foote retreated to the King-Smith Studio School, in Washington, D.C., where he managed the theatre program, directed the modern repertoire, explored non-narrative forms of drama with Valerie Bettis, who was also in residence, and wrote four one-acts that were mounted at the school's theatre.
