I learned quite a few new terms while reading my stagecraft textbook (it’s really an invigorating read). Here’s a few:

–black box: flexible area, big black room with nothing in it used for production, popular within colleges and training schools and can be easily reconfigured to the needs of the production

–cyclorama: a backdrop in today’s theater is a curtain placed upstage of all, or at least most of, the action, and we see the actors against it, and usually it helps to inform us of the setting

–environmental theater: it provides integration between the audience and the actors, and the audience is expected to participate

–grand border: downstage of the house curtain hangs the grand border, which is a short curtain that hangs up in the air and goes all the way across the stage from left to right to mask the workings of the theater from the audience’s view

–rake: the type of angled stage that the Greeks used so the sound can bounce around to all areas of the audience, and it serves the basis for modern stage directions

–thrust stage: the apron is much larger and “thrusts” into the auditorium, like ma tongue or a runway

–vomitorium: a hallway where the actors could enter unseen from the middle of the audience

qotd (quote of the day)

Music is a safe kind of high

~Jimi Hendrix~

One good thing about music. When it hits you, you feel no pain.

~Bob Marley~