Stage Types
Audience on one side, the stage we have here
Proscenium
Adds height to the stage, able to be walked on
Platforms
Typically the first thing you notice. Combinations can imply relationships and mindsets. (Contrasting, complimentary)
Color
The front, main curtain
Grand
The first actor
Thespis
Audience on three sides
Thrust Stage
Typically builds walls. Able to add windows and doors.
Flats
Qualities of smoothness or roughness, variation of materials, patterns, colors
Texture
The curtains that hang from the sides, make up the wings
Legs
A purge of emotions for the characters or audience
Catharsis
Audience on all sides
Arena Stage
Three-sided set piece, each side can be painted for different scenes
Periaktoi
Helps to define the edges of masses on the stage and to create feelings of movement or distance
Line
A back curtain usually used for lighting effects
Cyc
Writer of musicals such as Hamilton, In the Heights, and music for Encanto
Lin-Manuel Miranda
A space that you can arrange however you wish
Black Box
Platforms with wheels, typically have set pieces on top
Wagons
How the scenic elements and the open space between them are arranged within height, width, depth of the stage space
Composition
A curtain that the audience can see through if lit from behind
Scrim
Some argue that its function is to chase away mischievous spirits; others insist it is for the ghosts that are said to inhabit virtually every theatre, keeping them happy and contented.
Ghost Light
Performing in a space that isn't typically a theatre space
Found space
A set that's built as if it's one room, typically has tree walls.
Box set
Size of scenic elements on the stage, the amount of space they occupy
Mass
The pipes that curtains and set pieces can hang on
Battens
The Scottish play that supposedly brings bad luck if you say it by name in a theatre during a show or rehearsal
Macbeth