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Old jerks ringing a theatre about performances (9)

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I believe the answer is:

operatics

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'performances' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether this works.

'old jerks ringing a theatre' is the wordplay.
'old' becomes 'o' (abbreviation).
'jerks' becomes 'tics'.
'ringing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'a' becomes 'per' (eg 'one a day' means 'one per day').
'theatre' becomes 'a' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'o'+'tics'='otics'
'per'+'a'='pera'
'otics' enclosing 'pera' is 'OPERATICS'.

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