repertory
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7.4
- noun
- /ˈrɛpərˌtɔri/
:
compañía de repertorio
- The local repertory theatre showcases a variety of plays throughout the year.
- plays in the repertory
Fair night outside the repertory theatre of bad science fiction.
- Fair night outside the repertory theatre of bad science fiction.
Examples
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I'd like to apply for admission to the Repertory Company.
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Robert Brustein: founder and director of the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard University.
Academic text (1999) -
You would have kept doing repertory theatre, whatever it was, till I died.
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I applied for the Repertory Company.
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I spent two years in repertory theater, trying to find out if I had anything.
Fiction book (1990) -
We are members of the Columbus Repertory Theatre.
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We were in his repertory company in Middlesbrough.
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But these plays make up a very small fraction of the theatrical repertory of the 1590s.
Blog text (2) -
Her great-grandmother sang with the Calhoun repertory company.
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Last I heard, she was doing Medea, Blanche Dubois, and Lady Macbeth for some repertory company up in Canada.
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
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2.7
A group of people who put on plays for an audience
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6.8
A group of actors who regularly perform different plays during a season
A group of actors who perform a set of plays regularly in one theatre
Compounds
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Etymology
Repertory comes from Latin reperire 'to find' and originally meant a list of works, much like the word repertoire. That's why a repertory can mean a theatre company that keeps and presents a set list of plays.