0 the quality of belonging or relating to the theatre, or to the performance or writing of plays, opera, etc.: --
The music helps to create a heightened theatricality.
1 behaviour that is extreme and not sincere, and that is intended to attract attention: --
She is like my mother in her theatricality.
She takes the theatricality out of high drama, reduces the mythological to something banal.
The first is the modern persistence of baroque - now neo-baroque - theatricality as a principle of totalising cultural representation and political control.
The representation of what has been entombed in the offstage as the unconscious of the stage is the presence of the uncanny theatricality.
They treat established notions of theatricality with a suspicion that places their work on a border between performance and theatre.
Here, the entrance through the door signals the very theatricality of the presentation.
This spirit of excess represented in the entrance canopy is an inherent quality of theatricality in draped architecture.
I locate the poisonous source of that theatricality in the novel's originating sin: the promiscuity of woman.
Observation of minute traces has revealed several indicators of 'theatricality' in much of the repertoire.
