Piece of equipment

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A piece of equipment is a theatrical performance that puts the sensational value of a luxurious theater decoration and astonishing stage technology and stage machinery in the foreground of the theatrical experience. Therefore, pieces of equipment usually require large stages.

It does not matter whether the stage event is a play , an opera , an operetta , a musical , a ballet , a revue or something else. - The term is often used disparagingly because the presentation is apparently more important than the content. Regardless of this, pieces of equipment were very popular, especially around 1900. There is also a close relationship to the circus performance , which at that time still contained extensive pantomimes . The American counterpart to the piece of equipment is called Extravaganza .

The term piece of equipment has been used around the middle of the 19th century and replaces the terms machine comedy and spectacle piece used from the Baroque to the beginning of the 19th century . In the course of the 19th century, a kind of piece of equipment developed that did not seek fairy-tale pomp, like the Feerien , but precise historical details, such as the performances of the Meiningen theater troupe. Also very elaborately designed movies (mostly period films or fantasy films ) is now called sometimes "extravaganza".

In the visual arts also a single belonging to an outfit is a prop as a piece of equipment called.