Adveantage And Disadvantages Of Stages

Question 1

Advantages of promenade theatre

Answer 1

Interaction and exciting type of theatre - audience may feel very involved

Question 2

Disadvantages of promenade theatre

Answer 2

• Audience may find moving in space hard and they may get tired of standing
• Actors and crew need to be skilled at moving the audience around and controlling their focus
• Health and safety risks
• View may be obscured by others

Question 3

Advantage of end on stages

Answer 3

• Audience all have similar views
• Stage pictures are easy
• Large backdrops or projection may be used

Question 4

Disadvantages of end on staging

Answer 4

• Audience at back may feel distant from stage
• Doesn’t have frame which can enhance the stage picture
• May not wing or fly area typical of proscenium arch theatres

Question 5

Advantage of traverse theatre

Answer 5

• Audience may feel very close as there are 2 front rows
• one side can see audiences reaction on other side
• sometime extreme ends of the sage can be used to create extra acting areas

Question 6

Disadvantages of traverse theatre

Answer 6

• Big piece of scenery, backdrops or set can block sight line
• Acting area is long and thin which might be challenging
• Actors must be aware of making themselves visible to both sides of the audience
• Lighting need to be arranged

Question 7

Advantages of a thrust stage

Answer 7

• Combines some advantages of proscium arch and theatre in the round stage
• Backdrops, flats and scenery can be used
• Audience may feel closer to the stage

Question 8

Disadvantages of a thrust stage

Answer 8

• Sight line for some can be obstructed
• Audience can have audience in their view
• Box Sets can’t be used

Question 9

Advantages of a proscenium arch

Answer 9

• Stage pictures are easy to create as the audience look at stage at roughly same angle
• backdrops and large scenery can be viewed
• may be fly space or wing space to store scenery
• Self contained world

Question 10

Disadvantages of a proscenium arch

Answer 10

• Some audience members might feel distant from the stage
• Auditorium could seem formal and rigid
• Audience interaction may be difficult

Question 11

Advantages of a theatre in the round

Answer 11

• Director and actors find very dramatic because audience is close to the stage as there is extended first row
• Audience feels engaged-actors enter and exit through audience
• No easily achieved ‘forth wall’ separating audience from acting area

Question 12

Disadvantages of theatre in the round

Answer 12

• can’t use backdrops
• Stage furniture has to be chosen carefully so it doesn’t affect audience members’ view
• actors have to be careful so no section of audience misses important pieces of action/facial expression for too long