The History of Theatre

When you said theatre, I thought like the theatre where you go and see a play, what's a theatre? It's the operating room. And why did you call it theatre? That's what we call it in England. In British English, it's theatre, the operating theatre. The spelling is the same, theatre. Back, the old theatre, there are small theatres you can go to in London where you can see the viewing stage. People would go and watch operations being performed. So that's why surgeons perform operations. Oh, wow. I didn't know that. Isn't it wonderful? Yeah.

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