Of The Winter's Tale he noted that there was "as natural a break as anyone could wish for" before the speech of Time as Chorus, and that he had never seen a production that placed an intermission other than at that point.
Reviewer Peter Holland analyzed the placement of intermissions in 1997: The placement of intermissions within those plays in modern performances is thus a matter for the play's director. The plays of William Shakespeare were originally intended for theater performance without intermissions. Broadway Bladder, and other considerations (such as how much revenue a theater would lose at its bar if there were no intermissions), govern the placement of intermissions within performances, and their existence in performances, such as plays, that were not written/created with intermissions in mind. The term "Broadway Bladder" names "the alleged need of a Broadway audience to urinate every 75 minutes". Psychologically, intermissions allow audiences to pause their suspension of disbelief and return to reality, and are a period during which they can engage critical faculties that they have suspended during the performance itself. Performance venues take advantage of them to sell food and drink. They also afford opportunity for scene and costume changes. They also exist for more mundane reasons, such as that it is hard for audience members to concentrate for more than two hours at a stretch, and actors and performers (for live action performances at any rate) need to rest. "The characters are deemed to continue acting during the interval from one act to another." However, intermissions are more than just dramatic pauses that are parts of the shape of a dramatic structure. "The interval is a rest for the spectators not for the action," wrote Marmontel in 1763. Jean-François Marmontel and Denis Diderot both viewed the intermission as a period in which the action did not in fact stop, but continued off-stage.
It should not be confused with an entr'acte (French: "between acts"), which, in the 18th century, was a sung, danced, spoken, or musical performance that occurs between any two acts, that is unrelated to the main performance, and that thus in the world of opera and musical theater became an orchestral performance that spans an intermission and leads, without a break, into the next act. Used in motion picture theaters as announcementĪn intermission, also known as an interval in British and Indian English, is a recess between parts of a performance or production, such as for a theatrical play, opera, concert, or film screening. Intermission screen frame during a 1912 film. For other uses, see Intermission (disambiguation).
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