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booths Reference library
The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre
Simple, often portable, theatres providing light entertainment at the seaside, they derived from the booths that first appeared at fairs

Booths Reference library
The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre (2 ed.)
portable theatres which provided travelling companies with an adequate stage, supplanting the adapted innyards (see INNYARDS USED AS THEATRES...

Boulevard du Temple
Fairground in Paris which became a centre of entertainment, with circuses, booths (in which Bobèche and Galimafré revived memories of the earlier parades), children's theatres, and puppet-shows. ...

boulevard theatre
At its simplest, ‘le théâtre de boulevard’ translates as ‘commercial theatre’: it refers, particularly in the period 1890–1914, to those Parisian establishments which were independent of state ...

Edwin Booth
(1833–93)American actor. Born in Maryland, Edwin was the second son of acclaimed actor Junius Brutus Booth and Mary Ann Holmes. Accompanying his erratic and frequently inebriated father on tour ...

Funambules, Théâtre des
Paris, playhouse on the boulevard du Temple which derived its name from the Latin for rope-dancers. It began as a booth for acrobats and pantomime, but in 1816 a permanent ...

Punch and Judy
English puppet theatre which acquired its present form early in the nineteenth century. The show is a glove-puppet performance of an episodic nature with little plot, built around a lord ...

seasonal theatre
Many people go to the theatre during the Christmas or summer holidays, and managements cater specifically for this trade. At Christmas, the shows are generally aimed at children. In Britain ...

theatre
Building for the public enjoyment of drama, etc. Antique Classical theatres were planned as segments of a circle, the seats rising in concentric tiers above and behind one another around the ...
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