Chapter 3: History Flashcards
A stage configuration in which the spectators watch the action through a rectangular opening, picture frame.
Proscenium
A stage projecting into, and surrounded on three sides by, the audinece.
Thrust stage
A stage completely surrounded by the audience.
Arena stage
A visual-disortaion technique that increases the apparent depth of an object.
Forced perspective
A stage floor that is higher at the back than the front.
Raked stage
Scenery designed to visually support a generalized location, rather than a specific one, commonly used from the renaissance time.
Stock set
A large expanse of cloth, usually muslin or canvas, on which something (landscape, sky, street) is painted.
Drop
Tall, cloth covered frames or narrow, unframed drops placed on either side of the stage, parallel with the proscenium arch, to prevent the audience from seeing backstage.
Wings
The flat extension of the stage floor that projects from the proscenium arch toward the audience.
Apron
Wide, short, framed or unframed cloth drops suspended to prevent the audience from seeing above the stage; normally match the decorative treatment of the wings.
Borders
A small elevator used to shift small pieces of scenery, underneath the scene.
Elevator trap
A large elevator used to shift large scenic elements or whole sets between the area beneath the stage and the stage.
Elevator stage
A large circular disk that pivots on its central axis.
Revolving stage
A revolving stage with, usually, two sections, on rotating inside the other.
Concentric revolving stages
Any lights hung above the stage, behind the borders.
Borderlights
