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When I was young I was taught a term describing a play within a play. Although "intermission" has been used (as brief plays were used to entertain during scene changes) that is not the term I was taught so many years ago. Can anyone suggest a different word?

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Innerplay?

[(a pun based on interplay)]


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metatheater? metadrama?

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The term I learned was one adapted from heraldic terminology: mise-en-abyme.


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Try not to fall off, then.

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Try not to fall off, then.

You talkin' t'me?


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Miss on a beam! Jackie!!!! I saw that!


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Oh no! It's catching!

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Try not to fall off, then.

You talkin' t'me?


Yes--you said you were on a beam. [EG]

(Ted, we were close!)

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Yes--you said you were on a beam.

Oh, "Me's on a beam" is good-enough English for you and me?


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