theatrical convention

I use the theatrical convention for right and left, which is as seen from the back of the stage looking towards the audience.

Yet while theatrical conventions are fluid, social attitudes may be less so.

By 1638 the disguised Moor had become a theatrical convention.

This was a theatrical convention in the mid-19th century.

Yet it also made one aware of theatrical conventions.

Some visitors are caught off-guard and don't understand the theatrical convention involved.

Theatre breaks are a form of short holiday, based around viewing a theatrical convention show.

To some extent he had to compromise his modernist vision with the theatrical conventions of the time.

It is defiant of theatrical convention and hardly a crowd-pleaser.

Dramatic form is created through a combination of modes, performance styles and theatrical conventions.

The songs fit together so well as a cycle, in fact, that one hated to imagine them broken up by theatrical convention.

These take various forms, but all reject theatrical conventions, especially realism, and invite the audience to help create the work.

In opera, singers mostly adhere to the theatrical convention of the invisible fourth wall.

“Steptext” plays with theatrical conventions: the house lights go on and off; the music is abruptly, repeatedly cut.

The theatrical convention, depicted in fulsome detail, becomes increasingly contagious.

Knowledge of a range of performance styles and theatrical conventions that define this era is developed.

This film follows the theatrical conventions of that time with Bert Williams wearing black face.

At first you think her heavy makeup, covering what seems to be a natural peaches-and-cream complexion, is simply a theatrical convention.

Again, Shakespeare is poking fun at theatrical conventions.

An indefatigable gadfly, Mednick has been flying in the face of theatrical convention since the 1960s.

Non-naturalistic performance styles and associated theatrical conventions are explored in the development of ensemble performance.

Jolson also enjoyed performing in blackface makeup, a theatrical convention since the mid 19th century.

Granted, the globally lauded stage wizard has always played fast and loose with theatrical convention, often to spectacular effect.