Theaters the city of Ar

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Theaters in the City of Ar

The roofed stage of the great theater, usually called that, though technically, it was the theater of Pentilicus Tallux, a poet of Ar, of over a century ago, best known for his poems in the delicate trilesiac form and two sensitive, intimate dramas, was over a hundred yards in width, and some twenty yards in depth. This incredible stage, although only the center portions of it were used on many occasions, lent itself to large-scale productions, such as circuses and spectacles. It could easily accommodate a thousand actors. Too, given its strength, ponderous tharlarion, together with numerous other beasts, wagons and such, could appear on it, as they had last night, for example, in staged battles, in which Lurius of Jad, by personal intervention and at great personal risk, again and again turned the tide, and triumphal processions, as at the climax of the pageant.
Magicians

“We shall bring one,” said a fellow.
“Let it be a sack such as we use for tarsk meat,” said another.
“Yes,” said another.
“We will hang it with the meat,” said a fellow. “In that way it will attract little notice.”
“And we shall beat it well with our staffs,” said a fellow, grimly, “as we tenderize the sacked meat of tarsks.”
“That is fitting,” laughed a fellow.
“That, too, will attract little attention,” said another.
“We will break every bone in his body,” said another.
“In the morning see that it is found on the steps of the Central Cylinder.”
“It will be so,” said a fellow.
“And on the sack,” I said, “let there be inscribed a delka.”
“It will be so!” laughed a man.
In moments a sack was brought and the fellow, his eyes wild, was thrust, bound and gagged, into it. I then saw it tied shut over his head, and saw it being dragged behind two peasants toward the far side of the market, to the area where the butchers and meat dressers have their stalls.
Magicians

We were in a small, shabby theater. It had an open proscenium. The house was only some twenty yards in depth. This was the fourth such establishment we had entered this evening. To be sure, there were many other entertainments on the streets outside, in stalls, and set in the open, behind tables, and such, in which were displayed mostly tricks with small objects, ostraka, rings, scarves, coins and such. I am fond of such things, and a great admirer of the subtlety, the adroitness, dexterity and skills which are often involved in making them possible.
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Marcus and I stood in the pit, shoulder to shoulder with others, before the low stage. There were tiers behind us for those who wished to pay two tarsk bits, rather than one, for the entertainments.
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