theatrescape

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noun

The (physical or figurative) landscape of a theatre.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nountheatrescape (plural theatrescapes)

plural theatrescapes

  1. The (physical or figurative) landscape of a theatre.

    But the theatrescape has changed to the extent that artists know much more about the struggle, what it is to be lost and what must be preserved.

    2006, Colin Chambers, ed., Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre, p. 60
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    Having thus reviewed the 'woman question' in Bangladesh theatre , we may end by turning attention to an emerging field in the urban theatrescape, which, by daring to probe into the taboo domains of transsexuals and gays, promises to venture where the 'angels' of/in Bangladesh fear to tread.

    2014, A. Sengupta, Mapping South Asia through Contemporary Theatre, page 162

    Theatre historian Nic Leonhardt has argued that this period saw the emergence of a new 'theatrical geography' and a reconfiguration of the global theatrescape.

    2020, Christopher B. Balme, The Globalization of Theatre 1870-1930, page 16

Origin

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Chicago

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