0 in the area behind the stage in a theatre, especially the rooms in which actors change their clothes or where equipment is kept:
They are thus a doubly interesting source: early in her career they supply a much-needed musical profile; later they fill in the gossipy backstage context.
Moreover, the value of this backstage information was magnified (and sensitized) by its source.
As reward for loyal patronage, he gained access to the "secret world" of music-hall, and to the corps de ballet backstage.
The requirement for extensive underground parking made it viable to place the backstage areas at the seaward end, and to service them from within the platform.
Artists may then tack on a litanic ritual, and conspicuously flaunt - before the backstage staff - the demigod status they anticipate or seek to gain out front.
However, it is equally the case that backstage spaces and practices are overlooked because of a perception that they are simply too mundane, too quotidian to sustain investigation.
The authors, then, mediate between backstage and stage.
The backstage nature of women's stories about their own and others' bad behavior is said to allow women to perform being "not nice," otherwise proscribed for them by social norms.
