Onstage
Onstage adjective - Situated or taking place on the area of a stage visible to the audience.
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Theatrical and onstage are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Theatrical" instead an adjective "Onstage".
Theatrical
Theatrical adjective - Given to or marked by attention-getting behavior suggestive of stage acting.
Onstage and theatrical are semantically related. You can use "Onstage" instead an adjective "Theatrical".
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In another scene, a theatrical vampire troupe kills a naked woman onstage before an unwitting audience.
Source: Drop Dead Gorgeous - The insistent theatrical terminology carries further: uniforms are "costumes", places visible to guests are "onstage" while places not visible to guests are "backstage".
- Beyond that, the play is suffused from beginning to end with theatrical metaphors, and one of the most famous sequences includes the characters onstage watching a play even as the audience is watching them.
Source: Unbuilt Trope
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