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theatre - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com (1051 words) |
 | Theatre (Commonwealth English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the U.S.) or Theater (American English) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed any one or more elements of the other performing arts. |
| There is a particularly long tradition of political theatre, intended to educate audiences on contemporary issues and encourage social change. |
| The most recognizable figures in theatre are the playwrights and actors, but theatre is a highly collaborative endeavor. |
| theatre - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about theatre (5313 words) |
| The idea that Shakespeare's theatre was characterized physically by almost bare stages in small, soberly timbered playhouses must be put aside, and replaced by the image of sumptuously decorated and coloured architecture, and stages occupied by the same utilitarian but impressive scenic emblems that were used in court entertainments and religious and civic pageantry. |
| The reopening of the English theatres at the Restoration signalled the triumph of the perspective and proscenium stage, though at first a traditional apron stage protruded in front of the proscenium arch, and two pairs of doors were fitted to allow the actors easy access to the main acting area. |
| And while many existing theatres are of 19th-century design, and cannot be satisfactorily modified to accommodate modern theories of staging, numerous theatres have been built in recent years which dispense with the proscenium arch and combine features associated with medieval and Elizabethan stages together with the facilities offered by modern technology. |
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