Types of Stages pt.1
The area where the players perform; usually a raised platform.
What is stage?
Astage constructed so that the audience can sit on all sides: also known as "theatre-in-the- round".
What is an arena stage?
The section of the theatre where the audience sits; also called "out front".
What is the house?
Belief in your worth and abilities as a person.
What is self-confidence?
The actor's position onstage in relation to the audience described by five different angles.
What are body positions?
A four-sided stage built like a box with one side cut away, enabling the audience to view the play as if it were in a picture frame.
What is a proscenium stage?
What is a thrust stage?
Planning and working out the movements and stage grouping for a play.
What is blocking?
What is self-image?
An appealing and meaningful arrangement or performers on the stage; the picture that the audience sees onstage.
What is the stage picture?
Offstage spaced to the sides of the acting area.
What are wings?
Any stage not classified as proscenium, arena, or thrust.
What is flexible staging?
Nine to fifteen divisions of the stage floor, used by directors when moving actors or placing furniture or scenery.
What are acting areas?
Consideration for and acceptance of ourselves and others, including other people's property, backgrounds and opinions.
The actual head height of the actor as determined by his or her body position (sitting, lying, standing, or elevated by an artificial means such as a step unit or platform). Meaning is created in stage pictures by placing actors at different levels.
What are levels?
The draperies covering the proscenium opening (picture frame), separating the audience from the stage.
What is a grand drape?
Mental comments and opinions we repeat to ourselves constantly.
What is self-talk?
Imaginary divisions giving depth to the proscenium stage. An actor moves through the stage planes as he or she moves downstage toward the audience or upstage away from the audience.
What are planes?
The part of the stage extending past the proscenium arch toward the audience.
What is the apron?