A fact from Aqua drama appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 August 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that in 1804 The Siege of Gibraltar, an aqua drama at the Sadler's Wells Theatre, used 117 floating model ships capable of firing their own guns?
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Are Aqua dramas all theatre based? How about larger scale performances, such as the recreation of the Battle of the Nile in Hyde park, and other naumachia. See this sourceGwinva (talk) 03:54, 10 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Naumachia doesn't appear to have the necessary elements to be considered drama. It seems mostly to be spectacle and pageant. Aqua drama, as I understand it, is much closer to melodrama and includes such things as plot and characters with speaking parts. Gladiatorial combat doesn't quite land witin most definitions of theatre. Breschard (talk) 12:08, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
