What's the meaning of THEATRE in this paragraph? Hello everyone, I know the meaning of Theater as the place we go to watch a movie or a play. I don't get the meaning they want to convey in the paragraph below. The word is written in capital letters. Patients admitted to the Steve Biko Academic Hospital, Pretoria, who were reported to have been bitten by a spider between January 2006 and April 2012, a period of 78 months, and who were taken to THEATRE for debridement, were included... Thank you.