repertoryn.

Brit.

/ˈrɛpət(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˈrɛpə(r)ˌtɔri/

Forms:

α. 1500s reportorie, 1500s reportory.

β. 1500s– repertory, 1600s repartore (Scottish), 1600s repertorie.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin repertōrium.

Etymology: < classical Latin repertōrium inventory, catalogue (2nd or 3rd cent. a.d.) < repert- , past participial stem of reperīre to find by looking, discover, to acquire, get, to find by inquiry, to devise, invent ( < re- re- prefix + parere to produce, bring forth: see parent n.) + -ōrium -ory suffix¹. Compare Middle French, French répertoire repertoire n.; in sense 3 after French répertoire. Compare also Catalan repertori (a1459), Spanish repertorio (14th cent.), Portuguese repertório (1326), Italian repertorio (14th cent.). Compare later repertoire n., repertorium n.In α. forms apparently by association with report v., report n., or reportory n.

1. An index, list, catalogue, or calendar, esp. as a finding aid. In later use: spec. a book used in homeopathy, comprising a list of symptoms and related treatments. Also used in the titles of such books.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > record > list > [noun]

tableOE

scorec1325

billa1340

calendar?a1400

legendc1400

librarya1450

Ragmanc1450

Ragman rollc1450

cataloguea1464

repertory1542

scrowa1545

bedroll?1552

roll1565

file1566

state1582

inventory1589

brief1600

series1601

counter-roll1603

list1604

muster roll1605

cense1615

pinax1625

repertoirec1626

diagram1631

recensiona1638

repertorium1667

vocabulary1694

albe1697

enumeration1725

screed1748

album1753

tableau1792

roll-call1833

shopping list1923

laundry list1958

remainder list1977

society > communication > book > matter of book > [noun] > index

repertory1542

elench1570

index1580

Yellow Pages1871

word index1880

thumb-index1903

thumb-register1904

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes Pref. sig. **iiii Y^e incommoditee of ye ordre of thynges neglected & not precisely kept I haue with a large reportorie or table redoubbed.

1552 Ordre Hospital S. Bartholomewes sig. C.vii The vse of the first boke called a Repertory.

1588 H. Oldcastle & J. Mellis Briefe Instr. Accompts sig. Civ^v Vnto which Leager it shalbe necessary to..make a calender, otherwise called a Reportory or a finder.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 372 Hermippus..made besides a Repertorie or Index to euery booke of the said Poesie [L. indicibus quoque voluminum eius positis explanavit].

1687 N. Johnston Assurance Abbey & Church-lands 179 Whose singular favor I must ever acknowledge..in furnishing me with a Repertory, whereby I am enabled readily to find such Records.

1761 A. C. Ducarel (title) A proposal for publishing a general repertory of the endowments of vicarages.

1773 Gentleman's Mag. 43 353/2 Quoting a multiplicity of cases from the Repertory [printed Ref-] Book.

1843 Ordinance 7 in Stat. Law Cape of Good Hope (1862) 618 The actuarius being charged..With the care of the synodal papers and books, besides the synodical repertory.

1909 Jrnl. Amer. Inst. Homeopathy Feb. 73/1 I would not practice medicine without a repertory.

1922 Homeopathic Director 15 Feb. 56 Kent's Repertory and Hering's Condensed Materia Medica were used on the ward.

1997 M. Wood Bk. Herbal Wisdom 509 The repertory is arranged along the simple lines of ‘organ-specificity’, so that it will be easy to think from the general seat of the disease to the remedy.

2. Chiefly figurative. A repository, treasury, or fund. Esp. with of.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored

aumbry1356

promptuary?a1425

repository1485

staple1523

magazine1583

reposement1592

repertory1593

rendezvous1608

reserve1612

conservatory1624

reconditory1633

dormerc1640

stowagea1641

depositum1646

repositary1650

magazine storehousea1654

deposit1719

reservoir1739

battery1748

depository1750

storage1775

depot1795

depositary1797

repertorium1797

rua1831

stowaway1913

1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 27 As I looke..for his vniuersall Repertory of all Histories, contayning the memorable actes of all ages, all places, and all persons.

1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 118 We shall not be able in the hole Repertory of Fame to finde its parallel.

a1751 Bolingbroke Ess. ii. iii, in Wks. (1754) IV. 46 His [sc. Homer's] writings became the sole repertory to later ages of all the theology, philosophy, and history of those which preceded his.

1796 E. Burke Let. to Noble Loed in Wks. (1802) IV. 295 The moral scheme of France..is indeed an inexhaustible repertory of one kind of examples.

1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. i. 15 It is..an immense repertory of unconnected criticisms and other miscellaneous erudition.

1868 H. H. Milman Ann. St. Paul's Cathedral xviii. 456 The established repertory of our statutes and usages.

1930 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 50 266 The Kailāsanātha in particular is a veritable repertory of Śaiva iconography.

2004 B. Bini in S. Bann Reception W. Pater in Europe i. 31 In the prose-poem Le vergini delle rocce—a true repertory of decadent imagery and thought—the figure of Claudio Cantelmo is seductively evocative..of Pater's myth of Leonardo.

a. = repertoire n. 2; also in extended use (see repertoire n. 3).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > [noun] > repertoire

repertory1797

repertoire1819

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > repertoire

repertory1797

repertoire1819

summer stock1884

1797 Monthly Mag. Feb. 127/2 The works which shall be crowned in the Odéon, shall constitute, for ever, a part of its repertory.

1817 Times 27 Mar. 3/2 The first representation of a piece in five acts always formed an important event at the Theatre Français, even at the time when its repertory was frequently enriched with new productions.

1845 E. Holmes Life Mozart 210 The repertory of the German lyric stage was..miserably poor in comic operas.

1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt II. xxxi. 250 The tune the most symbolical of Liberalism which their repertory would furnish.

1936 Discovery July 222 Electrical instruments will not come into their own until a large repertory of music has been composed specially for them.

1963 Spectator 27 Dec. 852/1 The so-called jazz-dancing which has insidiously crept into our ballet repertory.

1998 N.Y. Times 7 May d4/1 Nintendo's Game Boy camera is..an inexpensive mass-market device with a seemingly endless repertory of functions.

b. The style of theatre characterized by the performance of productions from a repertoire, and featuring a regular rotation of works performed. Also: repertory theatres collectively. Abbreviated rep (cf. rep n.⁸).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [noun] > dramatic performance > regular succession from stock of plays

repertory1903

rep1906

1903 Bookman June 373/2 Josephine Sherwood, now in repertory, wrote the words and music of the Radcliffe play three years ago and acted in it.

1910 G. B. Shaw Let. 30 Apr. in Lett. to Granville Barker (1956) 164 Producing a lot of plays merely to ascertain which draws the most money, and running that and dropping the rest is not Propagandist Repertory.

1926 Amer. Year Bk. 1925 1062 Walter Hampden..settled down to repertory in the Hampden Theatre with Ethel Barrymore as co-star.

1951 Oxf. Compan. Theatre 664/2 The pioneer work of all these theatres stimulated an ever-growing interest in Repertory.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XVIII. 229/1 The change from repertory to the single play and the rise of realistic production also shifted artistic control from the actor to the manager.

1990 20/20 July 97/1 This California hippie bad-trip vision of Mozart's fairy tale is in repertory until June 11.

c. A theatre or company which features or performs works from a repertoire. Cf. repertory company n., repertory theatre n. at Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > company of actors > types of company

commonwealth1811

fit-up1864

stock company1864

repertory company1885

road company1885

stock1916

playshop1926

repertory1933

theatre workshop1945

rep1959

1933 P. Godfrey Back-stage ix. 134 The number of small stock companies, calling themselves resident repertories..continued to consolidate their positions with provincial audiences.

1953 Times 29 Aug. 8/3 Even now the Arts Council distributes about £20,000 a year..among some 20 of the repertories.

2006 Independent (Nexis) 9 Dec. 52 Among his notable performances at provincial repertories was Toad in Toad of Toad Hall at the Nottingham Playhouse.

Compounds

General attributive (chiefly in sense 3b).

repertory acting n.

ΚΠ

1911 P. P. Howe Repertory Theatre vi. 172 Amongst the ablest of repertory acting is that of Miss Maire O'Neill.

2003 G. Bolton et al. Farewell Cinderella vi. 225 Many had learned elocution and broadcasting skills professionally, while the rest had picked them up through repertory acting.

repertory actor n.

ΚΠ

1911 P. P. Howe Repertory Theatre vi. 172 Mr. Eadie is such an admirable repertory actor because he unites to his suppleness an extraordinary capacity for subjecting his own personality to the general tone..of the play.

2001 H. Gilbert Postcolonial Plays 130/2 Trewe, a failed former repertory actor, and Jackson, retired Calypsonian..,are adept at modes of popular theatre.

repertory actress n.

ΚΠ

1899 Boston Globe 21 Feb. 2/3 Blanche Dayne, a competent repertory actress.

1977 ‘J. le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy xiii. 290 She frowned..like a repertory actress doing Forgetfulness.

2004 M. S. Barranger M. Webster i. iii. 30 Webster had wanted hard work and she got it as a repertory actress in Macdona's company.

repertory company n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > company of actors > types of company

commonwealth1811

fit-up1864

stock company1864

repertory company1885

road company1885

stock1916

playshop1926

repertory1933

theatre workshop1945

rep1959

1885 Bristol Mercury 8 Dec. 3/5 Miss Alice Aynsley Cook..has since been engaged with Mr D'Oyly Carte's Repertory company.

1926 Scribner's Mag. Aug. 224/1 Mr. Ames showed what could be done with a first-class repertory company.

1977 J. Aiken Last Movement i. 13 He was..highly experienced; he had been in different repertory companies since the age of sixteen.

2007 New Yorker 12 Mar. 41/3 In 1986, Bourne, with some friends, put together a repertory company specializing in what he has called ‘arty farce’—that is, camp.

repertory movement n.

ΚΠ

1909 McClure's Mag. Nov. 13/1 The Manchester players visited London during the summer of the present year, and their success gave a marked stimulus to the repertory movement.

2001 B. Osnes Acting 299/1 A bright spot in Scottish theater history is the Glasgow Repertory Theatre, which contributed greatly to the repertory movement in Scotland.

repertory play n.

ΚΠ

1895 Chicago Tribune 12 Mar. 5/4 As a repertory play it was well set and the incidental music was pleasing.

1903 G. B. Shaw Let. 12 Jan. (1972) II. 302 Much Ado..would come in on tour as a Shakespearean repertory play.

2001 T. J. Viator & W. J. Burling Plays of C. Cibber 32 The rival troupe at Lincoln's Inn Fields could rely upon standard repertory plays to draw audiences.

repertory player n.

ΚΠ

1912 Boston Sunday Globe 17 Mar. 58/3 (heading) Manchester Repertory Players.

2008 Guardian (Nexis) 14 Nov. (Film & Music section) 8 The presence of Smith's trusty repertory players in minor roles makes this for fans only.

repertory system n.

ΚΠ

1873 U. S. Med. Investigator Aug. 494 Why should our critic be down on the Repertory system?

c1913 D. McCarthy Drama (1940) 60 The repertory system is certainly a means to getting good acting.

2005 L. Munro Children of Queen's Revels 9 The rapid turnover of plays in a repertory system meant that most plays were adaptations.

repertory theatre n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > [noun] > other types of theatre

little theatre1569

private house1604

private playhouse1609

amphitheatre1611

private theatre1633

droll-house1705

summer theatre1761

show shop1772

national theatre1816

minor1821

legitimate1826

patent house1827

patent theatre1836

showboat1839

music theatre1849

penny-gaff1856

saloon theatre1864

leg shop1871

people's theatre1873

nickelodeon1888

repertory theatre1891

studio theatre1891

legit1897

blood-tub1906

rep1906

small-timer1910

grind house1923

theatrette1927

indie1928

vaude1933

straw hat1935

theatre-in-the-round1948

straw-hatter1949

bughouse1952

theatre-restaurant1958

dinner theatre1959

theatre club1961

black box1971

pub theatre1971

performance space1972

1891 N.Y. Times 18 Oct. 13/2 They are talking again in London of a ‘repertory theatre’—a playhouse equipped with a strong company of actors.

1909 Times 9 June 8/6 It may..take a little time for the London public to grow used to the frequent changes of bill which a repertory theatre implies.

1930 Bulletin 23 Jan. 5/1 The Bills relate to..municipal repertory theatres.

2004 Time Out N.Y. 30 Dec. 129/1 Tony Walton's semiconcert staging at the Irish Repertory Theatre uses a compressed version of Coward's text.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	repertory
释义	repertoryn. Brit. /ˈrɛpət(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈrɛpə(r)ˌtɔri/ Forms: α. 1500s reportorie, 1500s reportory. β. 1500s– repertory, 1600s repartore (Scottish), 1600s repertorie. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin repertōrium. Etymology: < classical Latin repertōrium inventory, catalogue (2nd or 3rd cent. a.d.) < repert- , past participial stem of reperīre to find by looking, discover, to acquire, get, to find by inquiry, to devise, invent ( < re- re- prefix + parere to produce, bring forth: see parent n.) + -ōrium -ory suffix¹. Compare Middle French, French répertoire repertoire n.; in sense 3 after French répertoire. Compare also Catalan repertori (a1459), Spanish repertorio (14th cent.), Portuguese repertório (1326), Italian repertorio (14th cent.). Compare later repertoire n., repertorium n.In α. forms apparently by association with report v., report n., or reportory n. 1. An index, list, catalogue, or calendar, esp. as a finding aid. In later use: spec. a book used in homeopathy, comprising a list of symptoms and related treatments. Also used in the titles of such books. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > list > [noun] tableOE scorec1325 billa1340 calendar?a1400 legendc1400 librarya1450 Ragmanc1450 Ragman rollc1450 cataloguea1464 repertory1542 scrowa1545 bedroll?1552 roll1565 file1566 state1582 inventory1589 brief1600 series1601 counter-roll1603 list1604 muster roll1605 cense1615 pinax1625 repertoirec1626 diagram1631 recensiona1638 repertorium1667 vocabulary1694 albe1697 enumeration1725 screed1748 album1753 tableau1792 roll-call1833 shopping list1923 laundry list1958 remainder list1977 society > communication > book > matter of book > [noun] > index repertory1542 elench1570 index1580 Yellow Pages1871 word index1880 thumb-index1903 thumb-register1904 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes Pref. sig. *iiii Y^e incommoditee of ye ordre of thynges neglected & not precisely kept I haue with a large reportorie or table redoubbed. 1552 Ordre Hospital S. Bartholomewes* sig. C.vii The vse of the first boke called a Repertory. 1588 H. Oldcastle & J. Mellis Briefe Instr. Accompts sig. Civ^v Vnto which Leager it shalbe necessary to..make a calender, otherwise called a Reportory or a finder. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 372 Hermippus..made besides a Repertorie or Index to euery booke of the said Poesie [L. indicibus quoque voluminum eius positis explanavit]. 1687 N. Johnston Assurance Abbey & Church-lands 179 Whose singular favor I must ever acknowledge..in furnishing me with a Repertory, whereby I am enabled readily to find such Records. 1761 A. C. Ducarel (title) A proposal for publishing a general repertory of the endowments of vicarages. 1773 Gentleman's Mag. 43 353/2 Quoting a multiplicity of cases from the Repertory [printed Ref-] Book. 1843 Ordinance 7 in Stat. Law Cape of Good Hope (1862) 618 The actuarius being charged..With the care of the synodal papers and books, besides the synodical repertory. 1909 Jrnl. Amer. Inst. Homeopathy Feb. 73/1 I would not practice medicine without a repertory. 1922 Homeopathic Director 15 Feb. 56 Kent's Repertory and Hering's Condensed Materia Medica were used on the ward. 1997 M. Wood Bk. Herbal Wisdom 509 The repertory is arranged along the simple lines of ‘organ-specificity’, so that it will be easy to think from the general seat of the disease to the remedy. 2. Chiefly figurative. A repository, treasury, or fund. Esp. with of. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored aumbry1356 promptuary?a1425 repository1485 staple1523 magazine1583 reposement1592 repertory1593 rendezvous1608 reserve1612 conservatory1624 reconditory1633 dormerc1640 stowagea1641 depositum1646 repositary1650 magazine storehousea1654 deposit1719 reservoir1739 battery1748 depository1750 storage1775 depot1795 depositary1797 repertorium1797 rua1831 stowaway1913 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 27 As I looke..for his vniuersall Repertory of all Histories, contayning the memorable actes of all ages, all places, and all persons. 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 118 We shall not be able in the hole Repertory of Fame to finde its parallel. a1751 Bolingbroke Ess. ii. iii, in Wks. (1754) IV. 46 His [sc. Homer's] writings became the sole repertory to later ages of all the theology, philosophy, and history of those which preceded his. 1796 E. Burke Let. to Noble Loed in Wks. (1802) IV. 295 The moral scheme of France..is indeed an inexhaustible repertory of one kind of examples. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. i. 15 It is..an immense repertory of unconnected criticisms and other miscellaneous erudition. 1868 H. H. Milman Ann. St. Paul's Cathedral xviii. 456 The established repertory of our statutes and usages. 1930 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 50 266 The Kailāsanātha in particular is a veritable repertory of Śaiva iconography. 2004 B. Bini in S. Bann Reception W. Pater in Europe i. 31 In the prose-poem Le vergini delle rocce—a true repertory of decadent imagery and thought—the figure of Claudio Cantelmo is seductively evocative..of Pater's myth of Leonardo. 3. a. = repertoire n. 2; also in extended use (see repertoire n. 3). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > [noun] > repertoire repertory1797 repertoire1819 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > repertoire repertory1797 repertoire1819 summer stock1884 1797 Monthly Mag. Feb. 127/2 The works which shall be crowned in the Odéon, shall constitute, for ever, a part of its repertory. 1817 Times 27 Mar. 3/2 The first representation of a piece in five acts always formed an important event at the Theatre Français, even at the time when its repertory was frequently enriched with new productions. 1845 E. Holmes Life Mozart 210 The repertory of the German lyric stage was..miserably poor in comic operas. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt II. xxxi. 250 The tune the most symbolical of Liberalism which their repertory would furnish. 1936 Discovery July 222 Electrical instruments will not come into their own until a large repertory of music has been composed specially for them. 1963 Spectator 27 Dec. 852/1 The so-called jazz-dancing which has insidiously crept into our ballet repertory. 1998 N.Y. Times 7 May d4/1 Nintendo's Game Boy camera is..an inexpensive mass-market device with a seemingly endless repertory of functions. b. The style of theatre characterized by the performance of productions from a repertoire, and featuring a regular rotation of works performed. Also: repertory theatres collectively. Abbreviated rep (cf. rep n.⁸). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [noun] > dramatic performance > regular succession from stock of plays repertory1903 rep1906 1903 Bookman June 373/2 Josephine Sherwood, now in repertory, wrote the words and music of the Radcliffe play three years ago and acted in it. 1910 G. B. Shaw Let. 30 Apr. in Lett. to Granville Barker (1956) 164 Producing a lot of plays merely to ascertain which draws the most money, and running that and dropping the rest is not Propagandist Repertory. 1926 Amer. Year Bk. 1925 1062 Walter Hampden..settled down to repertory in the Hampden Theatre with Ethel Barrymore as co-star. 1951 Oxf. Compan. Theatre 664/2 The pioneer work of all these theatres stimulated an ever-growing interest in Repertory. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XVIII. 229/1 The change from repertory to the single play and the rise of realistic production also shifted artistic control from the actor to the manager. 1990 20/20 July 97/1 This California hippie bad-trip vision of Mozart's fairy tale is in repertory until June 11. c. A theatre or company which features or performs works from a repertoire. Cf. repertory company n., repertory theatre n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > company of actors > types of company commonwealth1811 fit-up1864 stock company1864 repertory company1885 road company1885 stock1916 playshop1926 repertory1933 theatre workshop1945 rep1959 1933 P. Godfrey Back-stage ix. 134 The number of small stock companies, calling themselves resident repertories..continued to consolidate their positions with provincial audiences. 1953 Times 29 Aug. 8/3 Even now the Arts Council distributes about £20,000 a year..among some 20 of the repertories. 2006 Independent (Nexis) 9 Dec. 52 Among his notable performances at provincial repertories was Toad in Toad of Toad Hall at the Nottingham Playhouse. Compounds General attributive (chiefly in sense 3b). repertory acting n. ΚΠ 1911 P. P. Howe Repertory Theatre vi. 172 Amongst the ablest of repertory acting is that of Miss Maire O'Neill. 2003 G. Bolton et al. Farewell Cinderella vi. 225 Many had learned elocution and broadcasting skills professionally, while the rest had picked them up through repertory acting. repertory actor n. ΚΠ 1911 P. P. Howe Repertory Theatre vi. 172 Mr. Eadie is such an admirable repertory actor because he unites to his suppleness an extraordinary capacity for subjecting his own personality to the general tone..of the play. 2001 H. Gilbert Postcolonial Plays 130/2 Trewe, a failed former repertory actor, and Jackson, retired Calypsonian..,are adept at modes of popular theatre. repertory actress n. ΚΠ 1899 Boston Globe 21 Feb. 2/3 Blanche Dayne, a competent repertory actress. 1977 ‘J. le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy xiii. 290 She frowned..like a repertory actress doing Forgetfulness. 2004 M. S. Barranger M. Webster i. iii. 30 Webster had wanted hard work and she got it as a repertory actress in Macdona's company. repertory company n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > company of actors > types of company commonwealth1811 fit-up1864 stock company1864 repertory company1885 road company1885 stock1916 playshop1926 repertory1933 theatre workshop1945 rep1959 1885 Bristol Mercury 8 Dec. 3/5 Miss Alice Aynsley Cook..has since been engaged with Mr D'Oyly Carte's Repertory company. 1926 Scribner's Mag. Aug. 224/1 Mr. Ames showed what could be done with a first-class repertory company. 1977 J. Aiken Last Movement i. 13 He was..highly experienced; he had been in different repertory companies since the age of sixteen. 2007 New Yorker 12 Mar. 41/3 In 1986, Bourne, with some friends, put together a repertory company specializing in what he has called ‘arty farce’—that is, camp. repertory movement n. ΚΠ 1909 McClure's Mag. Nov. 13/1 The Manchester players visited London during the summer of the present year, and their success gave a marked stimulus to the repertory movement. 2001 B. Osnes Acting 299/1 A bright spot in Scottish theater history is the Glasgow Repertory Theatre, which contributed greatly to the repertory movement in Scotland. repertory play n. ΚΠ 1895 Chicago Tribune 12 Mar. 5/4 As a repertory play it was well set and the incidental music was pleasing. 1903 G. B. Shaw Let. 12 Jan. (1972) II. 302 Much Ado..would come in on tour as a Shakespearean repertory play. 2001 T. J. Viator & W. J. Burling Plays of C. Cibber 32 The rival troupe at Lincoln's Inn Fields could rely upon standard repertory plays to draw audiences. repertory player n. ΚΠ 1912 Boston Sunday Globe 17 Mar. 58/3 (heading) Manchester Repertory Players. 2008 Guardian (Nexis) 14 Nov. (Film & Music section) 8 The presence of Smith's trusty repertory players in minor roles makes this for fans only. repertory system n. ΚΠ 1873 U. S. Med. Investigator Aug. 494 Why should our critic be down on the Repertory system? c1913 D. McCarthy Drama (1940) 60 The repertory system is certainly a means to getting good acting. 2005 L. Munro Children of Queen's Revels 9 The rapid turnover of plays in a repertory system meant that most plays were adaptations. repertory theatre n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > [noun] > other types of theatre little theatre1569 private house1604 private playhouse1609 amphitheatre1611 private theatre1633 droll-house1705 summer theatre1761 show shop1772 national theatre1816 minor1821 legitimate1826 patent house1827 patent theatre1836 showboat1839 music theatre1849 penny-gaff1856 saloon theatre1864 leg shop1871 people's theatre1873 nickelodeon1888 repertory theatre1891 studio theatre1891 legit1897 blood-tub1906 rep1906 small-timer1910 grind house1923 theatrette1927 indie1928 vaude1933 straw hat1935 theatre-in-the-round1948 straw-hatter1949 bughouse1952 theatre-restaurant1958 dinner theatre1959 theatre club1961 black box1971 pub theatre1971 performance space1972 1891 N.Y. Times 18 Oct. 13/2 They are talking again in London of a ‘repertory theatre’—a playhouse equipped with a strong company of actors. 1909 Times 9 June 8/6 It may..take a little time for the London public to grow used to the frequent changes of bill which a repertory theatre implies. 1930 Bulletin 23 Jan. 5/1 The Bills relate to..municipal repertory theatres. 2004 Time Out N.Y. 30 Dec. 129/1 Tony Walton's semiconcert staging at the Irish Repertory Theatre uses a compressed version of Coward's text. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1542
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