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==Modern examples== [[File:Vomitorium.png|thumb|Rendering of a ''vomitorium'']] [[Smock Alley Theatre]] in Temple Bar, Dublin, has two ''vomitoria'', one stage left and one stage right, as does the [[Stratford Festival]] in Stratford, Ontario, Canada.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.stratfordfestival.ca/AboutUs/OurHistory/Timeline |title=Timeline | Stratford Festival Official Website}}</ref> The [[Oregon Shakespeare Festival]], for instance, has ''vomitoria'' in two of its theatres, the outdoor Elizabethan Stage and the Angus Bowmer Theatre. The "voms", as they are called, allow actors to mount the stage from halls cut into the amphitheatre. The [[Guthrie Theatre]] in [[Minneapolis, Minnesota]], has two permanent ''vomitoria'', one at stage left and one at stage right, of its [[thrust stage]]. The [[Circle in the Square Theatre]], designed to reflect the theatres of ancient Greece and Rome, is the only [[Broadway theatre]] that has a ''vomitorium'', which is still used in many of its productions as an entrance and exit for the actors. The [[Cockpit Theatre (Marylebone)|Cockpit Theatre]], built in London in the 1960s, is one of the very few purpose-built theatres in the round in London, and features four ''vomitoria'' as corner entrances between four banks of raked seating arranged in a square. The [[Chichester Festival Theatre]], founded in 1962, was the first of its kind to be opened in the United Kingdom for 500 years, because there is no [[Proscenium|proscenium arch]] or wings. Instead, there is a thrust stage with ''vomitoria'' or "voms" for the audience and performers to enter and exit.<ref>{{cite web |title=Friday Night Is Music Night |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2016/03/friday-night-is-music-night |publisher=BBC Press Office |date=26 January 2016 |access-date=5 February 2018}}</ref> In addition, the Mark Taper Forum, one of the three theatres making up the [[Los Angeles Music Center]], has two ''vomitoria''. It has a strong thrust stage such that the audience sit in an amphitheatre-type array. Winnipeg's second-largest theatre, [[Prairie Theatre Exchange]], has two ''vomitoria'' on either side of its thrust stage, with seating on three sides. The Space Theatre at the [[Denver Center for the Performing Arts]] is a theatre "in the round" with a [[pentagon]] configuration. It contains five ''vomitoria'' spaced 72 degrees apart, creating five equal seating sections.
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