Glossary words- Performance venues

Question 1

Amphitheatre

Answer 1

Circular or oval-shaped, open air theatre with
sloping, raked seating to the stage

Question 2

Apron stage

Answer 2

The apron is a section of the stage floor which projects towards or into the auditorium

Question 3

Black box

Answer 3

A studio theatre where the audience and actors are in the same room surrounded by black tabs.

Question 4

End on

Answer 4

Seating layout where the audience is looking at the stage from the same direction, that of a Proscenium Arch Theatre

Question 5

Found space

Answer 5

A performance space that wasn’t designed to be one (e.g factories)

Question 6

In the round

Answer 6

Seating layout where the acting area is surrounded on all sides by seating, with a number of entrances throughout

Question 7

Promenade

Answer 7

Staging where the audience moves around the performance space and in different locations

Question 8

Proscenium arch

Answer 8

The opening inthe wall that seperates the stage, also the picture frame through which the audience sees the play

Question 9

Site-specific theatre

Answer 9

A performance designed to work only in a particular non-theatre space

Question 10

Thrust

Answer 10

Stage that projects outwards so the audience is sat on at least two sides of the extended piece

Question 11

Traverse

Answer 11

Staging where the audience is on either side of the acting area