untheatrical

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ theatrical.

Adjective

untheatrical (comparative more untheatrical, superlative most untheatrical)

1. Not theatrical; mundane; not staged.
   • 1983, Charles R. Lyons, Samuel Beckett, page 13:

     Some people claim that Beckett's plays have grown more and more untheatrical. I believe the opposite is true

   • 2009 February 12, Alastair Macaulay, “Out of West Africa (via Brooklyn), From the Ground Up”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Mr. Brown’s work is an odd mixture of theatrical and untheatrical — even antitheatrical — elements in other aspects too.