Interlude (meaning "between play") may refer to:
- a short play (theatre) or, in general, any representation between parts of a larger stage production
- Entr'acte, a piece of music performed between acts of a theatrical production, or a short play-within-a-play within a larger theatrical work
- Morality play, a modern critical term describing Medieval and early Tudor theatrical entertainments that were known as "Interludes"
- a section in a movement of a musical piece, see: Bridge (music) or Break (music)
- a piece of music composed of one or more movements, to be inserted between sections of another composition: see also intermezzo, and for the Baroque era: sinfonia
Famous quotes containing the word interlude:
“Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Albert Speer, Walther Frank, Julius Streicher and Robert Ley did pass under my inspection and interrogation in 1945 but they only proved that National Socialism was a gangster interlude at a rather low order of mental capacity and with a surprisingly high incidence of alcoholism.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)
“New York is full of people ... with a feeling for the tangential adventure, the risky adventure, the interlude that’s not likely to end in any double-ring ceremony.”
—Joan Didion (b. 1934)