Private theatre performances [ Politics & Society ]
… theatre: any member of society could be called up to the stage during a given performance. The show itself was a form of entertainment during which everyone played a role, whether as actor, author, or spectator. It was worldly entertainment par excellence ; society theatre was an activity perfectly adapted to sociability. Voltaire and Madame … d’Orléans, with the performance of a comedy organised following a hunt. The two activities were of a rank in terms of entertainment, both part of the essential panoply of distractions for noble lords seeking escape from boredom. 1 . …
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