My Stage

In class we were made to devise a stage for our new play that we are currently studying "blackout". As a pair me and Sam created our own stage incorporating all the different theatre configurations (types of stages) we learnt in class such as ...

• In the Round
• Traverse
• 3 Sided
• End On/proscenium
• Promenade
• Thrust 
• immerse 

I did some further research and found some images and descriptions on how all the different stages are set for the audience to view and diagrams of what they look like.

Proscenium stage

A stage where the audience sits on one side only is called a proscenium stage (you might know this as end-on staging). The audience faces one side of the stage directly, and normally sits at a lower height.

In-the-round stage

An in-the-round stage is positioned at the centre of the audience - ie. there is audience around the whole stage. This type of stage creates quite an intimate atmosphere, and is good for drama that needs audience involvement.

Traverse stage

A stage where the audience sits on two sides is called a traverse stage. Again, this type of stage is good for creating an intimate atmosphere. 

Pictures and infomation 

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/drama/performing/stagerev1.shtml)

Thrust Stage

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.

(http://www.ia470.com/primer/theatres.htm)

Promenade 

A promenade theatre is a type of a theatre where there is no formal stage, both the audience and the actors are placed in the same space. The performance starts when one of the actors draws attention to himself or light is pointed in such a manner that it draws attention to a particular person. During the performance actors will stimulate the audience to move around. 

(http://uk.ask.com/question/what-is-a-promenade-theatre)

As a pair me and sam devised our onw stageing for the recent play we are studying. We decsided on a traverse/immerse stage. We thought the cat walk effect would be best sutided for our play beacsue we are going to incorperate alot of physcal thearter and the paralle audience get the full effect like that. We also like the idea of it being immersttive so in certain bit of the play we create an atmospheric immerive soundscape which would have a exsting experirnce on the audince.

Here is a diagram we drew up