Death is always been an important event, in both the fictional world and real life. While movies today have the luxury of special effect so spectacular and stunningly realistic, earlier forms of performances, especially in theaters, mostly rely on stage design, fake blood, lightning tricks or some clever trap doors to deal its the death of the actors on stage. Purpose? to find a way for the “corpse” the slip out of the main stage because all the murders and suicides are all fake right? The Roman would like a word on that..
This is another fantastic and informative article that somehow i stumble upon and has intrigued me ever since, thought it would be nice to share it with the world.
https://daily.jstor.org/stage-death-from-offstage-to-in-your-face/
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