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The stage. The boards. The footlights. The roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the crowd.


The birthplace of the tropes of every performance medium to follow.


[[Older Than Feudalism]], possibly [[Older Than Dirt]], '''Theatre''' is the art of presenting a story to an audience as though it was happening ''right in front of them''. A quantum leap beyond the performance of a single storyteller, it not only required an entire troupe to pull off, but could reach far more people at a single go, making it the ''first'' Mass Medium. Among other things, it invented the concept of [[Special Effects]] and gave birth to [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]. And over the centuries it has only gotten more complex, more sophisticated, and more engaging. A film may be able to overwhelm the viewer with visual spectacle, but a stage performance has an immediacy, a reality (however illusory), that gathers in is audience and shares itself with them.
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These are the tropes and works of '''Theatre'''.


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The stage. The boards. The footlights. The roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the crowd.

The birthplace of the tropes of every performance medium to follow.

Older Than Feudalism, possibly Older Than Dirt, Theatre is the art of presenting a story to an audience as though it was happening right in front of them. A quantum leap beyond the performance of a single storyteller, it not only required an entire troupe to pull off, but could reach far more people at a single go, making it the first Mass Medium. Among other things, it invented the concept of Special Effects and gave birth to Reality Is Unrealistic. And over the centuries it has only gotten more complex, more sophisticated, and more engaging. A film may be able to overwhelm the viewer with visual spectacle, but a stage performance has an immediacy, a reality (however illusory), that gathers in is audience and shares itself with them.

These are the tropes and works of Theatre.

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