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Stage TypesActing Areas
Stage DirectionsAdapted from
Ms. Aiva B. RodreguezHigh School for World Cultures
Bronx, NY
Types of Stages
Arena Stage (theatre in-the-round): a stage
on which the action takes place in the center of a circle and the audience sits around the stage.
Types of Stages
Thrust Stage: the performance area
“thrusts” out into the house and the audience
is on three sides.
Types of Stages
Black Box Theater: a large room painted black with lights hanging from beams on the ceiling – audience space and
playing space are flexible
Types of Stages
Flexible Staging – A play that is staged in a
place that cant be classified arena,
proscenium, thrust, black box or traverse
Stage directions abbreviations
X- to cross to another area of the stage
C- Center Stage – midway between front and back, up and down, right and left
DS Down Stage – The area closest to the apron in the center of the stage
US Up Stage_ The area closest to the back of the stage in the center
Stage directions abbreviations
R Stage Right– in the center to the right of the actor
L Stage Left – in the center to the left of the actor
DR Down Stage Right – The area closest to the audience to the right of the actor
DL Down Stage Left -– The area closest to the audience to the left of the actor
Stage directions abbreviations
UR Up Stage Right – The area closest to the back wall to the right of the actor
UL Up Stage Left -– The area closest to the back wall to the right of the actor