satyr play
Noun
Meaning
an ancient Greek burlesque with a chorus of satyrs
Source: WordNetHypernyms
Examples
The concluding satyr play was The Sphinx.
The Greek theatre was in the open air, on the side of a hill, and performances of a trilogy and satyr play probably lasted most of the day.
The convention on writing plays for the Greek festivals was to submit them in tetralogies of three tragedies along with one satyr play.
The Elizabethan (i.e. 16th-century English) writers thought of satire as related to the notoriously rude, coarse and sharp satyr play.
There is not enough evidence to determine whether the satyr play regularly drew on the same myths as those dramatized in the tragedies that preceded.
The satyr play following this trilogy was titled Amymone, after one of the Danaids.