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The passion play has three storytelling forms: narrative scenes with dialogue, oratorio-like songs performed by a large choir and tableaux vivants of Old Testament moments.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2022

I’m very interested in the tableaux vivants: you recognise a scene from a Caravaggio painting and it comes alive as a moving image.

From The Guardian • Jul. 21, 2017

He was an ardent admirer of Goya and Daumier, and with his Hollywood access to costumes, sets, makeup and masks, would create elaborate tableaux vivants in his studio.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2014

Early on, these were epic surrealistic tableaux vivants washed in unearthly colors with names like “Folding,” “Near the Terrace” and “Behind Resonance.”

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2014

When we had tableaux vivants at Ascham I was supposed to be Charlotte putting a wreath on Werther's urn, and I trembled so much that I knocked the urn down.

From The Invader A Novel by Woods, Margaret L. (Margaret Louisa)