Private theatre performances [ Politics & Society ]
… from room to stage, the makeshift actors then seamlessly reverting to guest status. Sociability was clearly at the heart of society theatricals: it was not just about making theatre, but about doing so surrounded by one’s peers, in a … it is all but impossible to document the theatricals of the lower classes, we know that members of every social stratum participated in this fashionable pastime. Society theatre was as prized in aristocratic circles as it was in bourgeois … expression, and where new forms of theatre could be explored. Society theatre was essentially a testing ground for the dramatic arts. 9 . Judith Le Blanc, ‘Voltaire parodiste ou la dramaturgie musicale de La Fête de Bélesbat‘, Revue …
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