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Extreme drama impacts stage (4)

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I believe the answer is:

dais

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'stage' is the definition.
(type of platform or stage)

'extreme drama impacts' is the wordplay.
'extreme' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters).
'impacts' becomes 'is' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'drama' with its centre removed is 'da'.
'da'+'is'='DAIS'

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(Other definitions for dais that I've seen before include "stage" , "stands on this?" , "Piece of old cloth" , "stepping up here?" , "device to give some an uplift at conference?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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