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Theatre and stage
Rehearsals, technicians, audience — from the read-through to the get-out.
La ridarella is made by a rule that English has no equivalent for. Italian takes a verb and hangs the ending -arella on it to name a fit that takes hold of a body against its will. From ridere, to laugh, comes la ridarella, the helpless laughter that arrives in the middle of a scene; from tremare, to tremble, comes la tremarella, the shakes before an entrance. The result is one feminine noun in the singular, carrying an article, and it is something that comes to you rather than something you do: mi è venuta la ridarella says it arrived. English reaches the same idea from the far end, with a plural that has lost its singular. We say « the giggles », « the shakes », « the shivers », « the jitters », « the hiccups », and every one of them has to carry « the » in front of it; nobody has a single giggle of this kind, and « a shivers » is not English at all. The theatre keeps a verb for precisely this entry, « to corpse », which is what an actor does when the laughter wins.
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Adverb (3)
a fondo scenaupstage, at the backAdverbC1
in prosceniodownstage, at the front edgeAdverbC1
dietro le quintebackstageAdverbC1
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