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little theatre

British  

noun

  1. theatre experimental or avant-garde drama, usually amateur, originating from a theatrical movement of the 1920s

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Having seen little theatre in Cape Town, Sher could now watch the greats: John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2021

I’d decided to make Chester my final destination on a little theatre tour through western Massachusetts last month.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 17, 2018

Still, his language is often beautiful: “How helpless desire is outside its little theatre of heat.”

From Economist ● Jan. 21, 2016

Hattie Naylor's take on Lewis Carroll's second most famous novel should be a pleasure, too, in this lovely little theatre for children which makes all adults feel slightly over-sized.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 11, 2010

At length we were seated in the little theatre; and, after a fearful charivari from the orchestra, the curtain drew up, and we beheld, seated at a long table, a company of monkeys!

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various

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