theatricalize
English
editEtymology
editFrom theatrical + -ize.
Verb
edittheatricalize (third-person singular simple present theatricalizes, present participle theatricalizing, simple past and past participle theatricalized)
- (transitive) To render suitable for the theatre.
- 2016, Hans-Thies Lehmann, Tragedy and Dramatic Theatre, →ISBN, page 151:
- Theater does not expect us to simply stop theatricalizing; it knows that we can theatricalize its conditions as we can theatricalize any others.