Types/Parts of the Stage
The Audience will sit in front of the stage only.
What is a Proscenium Theatre?
What is Center Stage?
The body position facing the audience
What is Full Body?
The Audience seating area
What is the House?
Romeo and Juliet genre
What is a tragedy?
What is a Raked Stage?
The Actor will stand here whenthey are furthest from the Audience.
What is Upstage?
The body position facing the wings
What is Side Profile?
Cheap seats location.
What is the Balcony?
The Invisible Boundary that separates the performers from the audience
What is the 4th Wall?
Hangs above the stage to hide things that should be seen like lights, vents, scenery, cables
What are Borders?
Stage directions perspective
What is an Actor?
The body position turned slightly but still open to the audience
What is 1/4 position?
The second seating tier, usually overhanging the orchestra at its midpoint
What is the Mezzanine?
A play that has a storyline told with dialogue and songs
What is a Musical?
downstage area, in front of the proscenium arch
What is an Apron?
The Actor will stand here to be closest to the audience.
What is Downstage?
Fully looking Upstage.
What is Full Back?
Seating arranged on the sides of the House. Usually reserved for sponsors.
What are the Box seats?
a sequence of words or sounds, typically of an alliterative kind, that are difficult to pronounce quickly and correctly
What is a Tongue Twister?
The Musicians playing area
What is the Orchestra Pit?
The Actor moves to stage Right from Stage Left.
What is a cross?
The body position 75% turned
What is 3/4 position?
Seating closest to the stage.
What is the Orchestra?
someone who decides where all the lights will go on stage along with any colors, patterns, and sometimes special effects.
What is a Lighting Designer?