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    There are several types of theatre stages: - A proscenium stage features a picture frame that separates the audience from the playing area. Scenery surrounds the acting area on all sides except the audience side. - A thrust stage has the audience on three sides and a background wall on the fourth side. Shakespeare's Globe Theatre was an example of a thrust stage. - An end stage is like a thrust stage but with the audience only on one side and no wingspace. Music halls often use end stages. - An arena stage has the audience completely surrounding a central stage area, which is often raised. - Flexible or "black box" theatres do not have fixed stages

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    There are several types of theatre stages: - A proscenium stage features a picture frame that separates the audience from the playing area. Scenery surrounds the acting area on all sides except the audience side. - A thrust stage has the audience on three sides and a background wall on the fourth side. Shakespeare's Globe Theatre was an example of a thrust stage. - An end stage is like a thrust stage but with the audience only on one side and no wingspace. Music halls often use end stages. - An arena stage has the audience completely surrounding a central stage area, which is often raised. - Flexible or "black box" theatres do not have fixed stages

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    There are several types of theatre stages: - A proscenium stage features a picture frame that separates the audience from the playing area. Scenery surrounds the acting area on all sides except the audience side. - A thrust stage has the audience on three sides and a background wall on the fourth side. Shakespeare's Globe Theatre was an example of a thrust stage. - An end stage is like a thrust stage but with the audience only on one side and no wingspace. Music halls often use end stages. - An arena stage has the audience completely surrounding a central stage area, which is often raised. - Flexible or "black box" theatres do not have fixed stages

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    Stage types:

    Proscenium stage:
    A proscenium theatre is what we usually think of as a "theatre".
    Its primary feature is the Proscenium, a "picture frame" placed around the front of the
    playing area of an end stage.

    The frame is the Proscenium; the wings are spaces on either side, extending off-stage.
    Scenery can surround the acting area on all sides except side towards audience, who watch
    the play through picture frame opening. "Backstage" is any space around the acting area
    which is out of sight of the audience.

    Thrust theatre:
    A Stage surrounded by audience on three sides. The Fourth side serves as the background.
    In a typical modern arrangement: the stage is often a square or rectangular playing area,
    usually raised, surrounded by raked seating. Other shapes are possible; Shakespeare's
    Globe Theatre was a five-sided thrust stage.

    End Stage:
    A Thrust stage extended wall to wall, like a thrust stage with audience on just one side, i.e.
    the front.

    "Backstage" is behind the background wall. There is no real wingspace to the sides,
    although there may be entrances located there. An example of a modern end stage is a
    music hall, where the background walls surround the playing space on three sides. Like a
    thrust stage, scenery serves primarily as background, rather than surrounding the acting
    space.

    Arena Theatre:
    A central stage surrounded by audience on all sides. The stage area is often raised to
    improve sightlines.

    Flexible theatre:
    Sometimes called a "Black Box" theatre, these stages are often big empty boxes painted
    black inside. Stage and seating not fixed. Instead, each can be altered to suit the needs of
    the play or the whim of the director.

    Profile Theatres:
    Often used in "found space" theatres, i.e. theatres made by converted from other spaces.
    The Audience is often placed on risers to either side of the playing space, with little or no
    audience on either end of the "stage". Actors are staged in profile to the audience. It is
    often the most workable option for long, narrow spaces like "store fronts".
    Scenically, a profile theatre is most like an arena stage; some staging as background is
    possible at ends, which are essentially sides. A non-theatrical form of the profile stage is a
    basketball arena, if no-one is seated behind the hoops.

    Sports Arenas:
    Sports arenas often serve as venues for Music Concerts. In form they resemble very large
    arena stage (more accurately the arena stage resembles a sports arena), but with a
    retangular floorplan. When used for concert, a temporary stage area often is set up as an
    end stage at one end of the floor, and the rest of the floor and the stands become the
    audience. Arenas have their own terminology; see below.

    An audience is a group of people who participate in a show or encounter a work of art,


    literature (in which they are called "readers"), theatre, music (in which they are called
    "listeners"), video games (in which they are called "players"), or academics in any
    medium. Audience members participate in different ways in different kinds of art; some
    events invite overt audience participation and others allowing only modest clapping and
    criticism and reception.

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