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Directing, staging and design
Proscenium arch (end-on, picture frame), thrust (audience on three sides), arena/in-the-round, traverse (audience on two sides), promenade and site-specific performance, open-air community spaces.
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Stage types
Proscenium arch (end-on, picture frame), thrust (audience on three sides), arena/in-the-round, traverse (audience on two sides), promenade and site-specific performance, open-air community spaces.
Stage areas
Upstage, downstage, stage left and right (from the actor's view), centre stage.
Directing
Interpreting the text, concept, casting, blocking (planning movement), rehearsal schedules, pace and rhythm, and working with designers.
Design elements
- Set: naturalistic, symbolic, minimalist; levels, entrances, use of local materials.
- Lighting: functions (visibility, mood, focus, time and place); equipment (floods, spotlights, profiles, fresnels, gels, dimmers).
- Sound: live and recorded music, effects, amplification.
- Costume, make-up and masks: character, period, status, symbolism.
- Props: personal and set props.
Technical theatre
Stage management (prompt book, cueing), front-of-house, health and safety, and working within budgets.
Check yourself
- Which stage type has the audience on three sides?
- Give two functions of stage lighting.
- What is blocking?
Show answers
- The thrust stage.
- Any two: visibility, creating mood, focusing attention, showing time and place, transitions.
- Planning and recording actors' positions and movements on stage.
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