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Promenade Theatre is where the audience are taken from location to location and there may be little/no seating. In medieval times, passion/mystery plays about the life of Christ were popular in cities across England (and Europe?). These were generally paid for by guilds of craftsmen, each of whom would put on a scene from Jesus' life on a cart. Those watching would move from cart to cart, making this a promenade production. Some of these still continue today, in different forms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Mystery_Plays Is this the origin of modern promenade theatre? Possibly. Another theory is that theatre practitioners have looked a lot more at unconventional staging since the 1950's, and this is a fairly obvious possibility, in which case fringe theatre/drama schools would be a good place to look for origins.

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