Private theatre performances [ Politics & Society ]
… both grand and modest, people of the same society and social stratum engaged in amateur theatre. Private theatre performances were a practice in which worldliness and aesthetics intersected, inextricably linked with sociability. In … production methods of traditional public 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, … to sociability. Voltaire and Madame Denis, for example, offered a sumptuous feast to the spectators following the performance of one of the playwright’s tragedies at Ferney. 3 The French literary critic Fréron 4 described a day in …
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