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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

Dames At Sea The bijou little theatre under the railway arches that has revealed a wonderful way with musicals on a shoestring has another song-and-dance offering.

From The Guardian • Jul. 22, 2011

Marie Wilton secured it and produced it on November 14, 1861, at her little theatre.

From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Filon, Augustin

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