performing
/pɚˈfɔɹmɪŋ/ noun B1- A performance.
Plural performings
From the library
Holmes stood before us with the air of a conjurer who is performing a trick.
This was one of his parts in the popular comedy he was performing,—a make-up he had adopted and which suited him about as well as the masks worn on the classic stage by paternal actors, who seen from one side, were the image of geniality, and from the other showed lips drawn down in chronic ill-temper.
Performing in this unique open-air environment teaches contemporary actors invaluable lessons about the mechanics of early modern drama.
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