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Theatre
Terms of or in relation to a collaborative form of fine art which uses live performances to express fictional or non-fictional stories to an audience in a particular place.
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Criticism
Performing arts; Theatre
Contemporary analysis or review of a play or dramatic work. Criticism was largely unknown until the 16th Century, with most analysis being confined to academic works. In the last three hundred years ...
Auditorium
Performing arts; Theatre
A room built to enable an audience to hear and watch performances at venues such as theatres. For movie theaters, the number of auditoriums is expressed as the number of screens.
Spike marks
Performing arts; Theatre
Marks on the stage floor, made with tape or paint, to designate where pieces of scenery are to be placed. Particularly useful for scene changes, spike marks often consist of luminous paint or ...
Ground row
Performing arts; Theatre
Masking element of flats or low platforms used to mask the bottom of a cyclorama or rear wall of a set and hide the strips of lighting instruments used to illuminate them.
Realism
Performing arts; Theatre
Movement in the theatre at the end of 19th Century to replace the declamatory style of the "well-made play". While Shakespeare may have had Hamlet instruct the actors to move and speak "naturally" ...
Light bridge
Performing arts; Theatre
Narrow platform behind the teaser in some theatres, from which lighting instruments can be hung.
Theatre
Performing arts; Theatre
No definition of theatre is broad enough, elastic enough, to encompass the entire scope of the dramatic arts in all their diversity -- dance, opera, ballet, worship, pageants, dialogue, acrobatics, ...
