Sentence examples for movable scenery from inspiring English sources
Some, equipped with movable scenery and wooden or cardboard figures, developed into the juvenile theatres of the 19th century (see toy theatre).
He emptied out the armory in his new house, and had the architect and engineer Giovanni Battista Aleotti build a magnificent wooden theater, covered in frescoes and equipped with movable scenery (an innovation at the time).
The theatre, designed by Giovanni Battista Aleotti and built in 1618 (but not used until 1628, to celebrate the marriage of a Medici daughter to a Farnese son), was the first proscenium theatre to be designed for movable scenery and is the earliest large-scale indoor theatrical facility to have survived.
In eight useful appendixes he addresses subjects that range from the remodeling of Greco-Hellenistic outdoor theaters to the drop-curtain-movable-painted-scenery controversy in the Roman theater.
Multiple setting largely died out during the Renaissance, when dramas began to be acted in a unified setting amid scenery that was perspectivally drawn and movable.
They have movable parts".
Walls became movable inserts.
Movable, but numb, clumsy.
This was a movable feast.
