fourth wall

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The imaginary invisible wall at the front of the stage in a proscenium theatre, through which the audience sees the action in the world of the play

There's been a convention in the theater world to think of the division between audience and spectacle as a fourth wall, a wall that the playwright tries to eliminate through the force of his drama.

The boundary between the fiction and the audience

I've saved the worst for last. The crudest scheme is to drop the fourth wall and advise players as to actions that are inhibiting.

The space separating the audience from the action of a theatrical performance, traditionally conceived of as an imaginary wall completing the enclosure of the stage
break the fourth wall
To apparently communicate with reality directly, such as when characters of literature comment on the existence of a reader
breaking the fourth wall
Present participle of break the fourth wall
breaks the fourth wall
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of break the fourth wall
broke the fourth wall
Simple past of break the fourth wall
broken the fourth wall
Past participle of break the fourth wall
fourth-wall
Alternative spelling of fourth wall
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