Theatre
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Theatre (or theater) (from Greek "theatron", meaning "place of seeing") is the branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, mime, puppets, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed any one or more elements of the other performing arts. Theatre has been defined as what "occurs when one or more human beings, isolated in time and/or space, present themselves to another or others." Theatre is the second stage in the history of fiction.
Theatre makers
See also
- History of fiction
- Theatrical, which means fake and exaggerated.
- Drama
- Restoration spectacular, blockbuster avant la lettre
- Theatre of the Absurd
- Theatre of Cruelty
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