Sets
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Scenery
Abstract Ideas
100
A set that consist of frames and openings
Skeleton Set
100
A set that remains the same throughout the play
Permanent set
100
Moveable flats built on tracks that are used for quick scene changes
Shutters
100
The style of design that claims that an impression of actuality is better than actuality itself
Selective Realism
200
Set that is made of several scenic sections that can be moved and turned to create different settings
Unit Set
200
A low platform stage that projects into the audience
Thrust Stage
200
A two-dimensional profile used in stage sets
Cut-out
200
Theatre that creates the illusion of a wall through which the audience observes the onstage action
"Fourth wall theatre"
300
A set constructed of screens forming the entire perimeter of the setting' also called cut-down sets
Profile Set
300
A stage completely surrounded by an audience; also called theatre-in-the-round
Arena stage
300
A type of low cut-out used to break the line between the floor and the drop
Ground row
300
The style of design that is photographically accurate
Naturalism
400
Another term for floating-screen set
Multiple-place set
400
A set made of single flats or narrow drops placed at various depths parallel to the front of the stage
Floating screen set
400
Two- or three-fold flats used as walls to cover openings; a quick means of changing scenes
Screens
400
Italian theatre built in 1508 that is modeled after Roman theatres
Teatro Olympico
500
A set that consists of two or three walls built of flats; sometimes covered by a ceiling
Box set
500
A set that uses cycloramas for the backdrop
Curtain Set
500
Triangles made of flats and mounted to a carriage that can be pivoted; also called prisms
Periaktoi
500
The stage setting practices that are traditionally accepted in a place of realistic depiction
Theatre Conventions
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