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Male interrupting individual mid-performance? (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

onstage

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'mid-performance?' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.

'male interrupting individual' is the wordplay.
'male' becomes 'stag' (a stag is a male deer).
'interrupting' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'individual' becomes 'one' (an individual is one person).
'stag' placed inside 'one' is 'ONSTAGE'.

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(Other definitions for onstage that I've seen before include "Visible to (theatre) audience" , "as a player may be?" , "Acting" , "in full view of the audience" , "In view of house" .)

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