Theatre Without Seats

C1 Advanced · Word Formation · Cambridge Ready original exercise

For questions 1–8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0).

DELIBERATE

SETTLE

INTIMATE

ENTHUSE

MEMORY

IMPRESS

AVOID

COHERE

In a (0) ___ theatre, the audience sits quietly in the dark while the actors perform on a stage. In immersive productions, by contrast, spectators wander freely through a building, often wearing masks, and choose for themselves which scenes and characters to follow. Such shows are (1) ___ (2) ___ : rooms may be dimly lit, doors may open onto empty corridors, and an actor may suddenly take a lone spectator aside for a brief moment of (3) ___ . (4) ___ claim that this format creates a uniquely (5) ___ experience, since no two visitors see exactly the same show and many return several times to discover what they missed. Others are less (6) ___ . They complain that, by wandering from room to room, you (7) ___ miss key moments of the plot, and that a story experienced only in fragments often seems (8) ___ . There is also the question of price: with tickets often costing far more than a seat in an ordinary theatre, some feel that the novelty is not worth it.

Theatre Without Seats

CONVENTION

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