What's the difference between stagehand and theatre?

Stagehand


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I was hurried off my little stage by a stagehand and walked down the hallway and back to my dressing room.
  • (2) He started out working as a stagehand in Stockholm and by the age of 20 he had written his first play, The Amusement Park , about Swedish colonialism in 19th-century South America.
  • (3) The director of the theatre where he began as a stagehand in 1958 before becoming a playwright – and where he said he spent the best eight years of his life – told AP he had started work on one last play this year.
  • (4) Casually-employed actors and stagehands in France have been angered by proposed changes to unemployment benefits rules making it harder to claim payments between jobs.
  • (5) While the dwarves basked in the limelight, the average-height family members worked behind the curtains as stagehands and wardrobe mistresses.
  • (6) The last I heard of him, 30 or so years ago, he was a young stagehand at the Barbican theatre in London; it was clear that his parents did not want him to have anything to do with a criminal career.
  • (7) The Stones were forced to make their own arrangements to ensure their concert at the Stade de France could go ahead tonight, hiring a replacement team of non-striking stagehands.
  • (8) When he left the army, he had the good fortune to be taken on as a stagehand at the ABC – a relic of the Liberated Theatre of the 1930s, presided over by his father's friend Jan Werich – and then at the new Theatre on the Balustrade, which was a seedbed of the wave of experiment and innovation that was to flourish in all the arts in Prague in the 1960s.

Theatre


Definition:

  • (n.) An edifice in which dramatic performances or spectacles are exhibited for the amusement of spectators; anciently uncovered, except the stage, but in modern times roofed.
  • (n.) Any room adapted to the exhibition of any performances before an assembly, as public lectures, scholastic exercises, anatomical demonstrations, surgical operations, etc.
  • (n.) That which resembles a theater in form, use, or the like; a place rising by steps or gradations, like the seats of a theater.
  • (n.) A sphere or scheme of operation.
  • (n.) A place or region where great events are enacted; as, the theater of war.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Michael Caine was his understudy for the 1959 play The Long and the Short and the Tall at the Royal Court Theatre.
  • (2) … or a theatre and concert hall There are a total of 16 ghost stations on the Paris metro; stops that were closed or never opened.
  • (3) Plays like The Workhouse Donkey (1963) and Armstrong's Last Goodnight (1964) were staged in major theatres, but as the decade progressed so his identification with the increasingly radical climate of the times began to lead away from the mainstream theatre.
  • (4) It should also be realised that, in a very few hospitals, swabs which do not have an opaque marker may occasionally be used in theatre.
  • (5) Maybe it’s because they are skulking, sedentary creatures, tied to their post; the theatre critic isn’t going anywhere other than the stalls, and then back home to write.
  • (6) McQueen later worked for Gieves & Hawkes and the theatre costumiers Angels , before being employed, aged 20, by Koji Tatsuno , a Japanese designer with links to London.
  • (7) Speaking in the BBC's Radio Theatre, Hall will emphasise the need for a better, simpler BBC, as part of efforts to streamline management.
  • (8) No one deserves to walk out of the theatre feeling scared, humiliated or rejected.
  • (9) An obsessional artist who was an enemy of all institutions, cinematic as well as social, and whose principal theme was intolerance, he invariably gets delivered to us today by institutions - most recently the National Film Theatre, which starts a Dreyer retrospective this month - that can't always be counted on to represent him in all his complexity.
  • (10) It was curious in that it was the only thing I was doing that was not directly related to theatre or film.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Daniel Radcliffe, centre, with Sarah Greene and Pat Shortt in The Cripple Of Inishmaan at the Cort Theatre in New York.
  • (12) You shouldn't get involved in theatre or film if you don't think they can do your book."
  • (13) Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian But is theatre even happening in the right places to begin with?
  • (14) This House , his witty political drama set in the whips' office of 1970s Westminster, transferred from the National's Cottesloe theatre to the Olivier, following critical acclaim.
  • (15) In his articles, he took on the theatre establishment, blaming it for siding with the actors and not the playwright.
  • (16) What we do know is that we cannot and will not see this decision as a vote of no confidence, and that we will find a way to continue through our own passion and dedication to making theatre that represents the dispossessed, tells stories of the injustices of our world and changes lives.
  • (17) In our play 2071 , which recently completed its inaugural run at the Royal Court theatre in London, directed by Katie Mitchell, we explore the science, its implications and the options before us.
  • (18) This paper describes a search for Gram-negative bacteria in an operating theatre and the steps taken to reduce the level of environmental contamination.A high rate of infection in clean wounds prompted a bacteriological survey.
  • (19) What's the best thing about making theatre in Britain?
  • (20) People want to talk to me – on city streets, in theatre queues, on aeroplanes over the Atlantic, even on country walks.

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