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- APRON
- Space on stage in front of the main curtain. very wide in Restoration and Eighteenth century. Much of the play took
place here.
- BACKDROP
- Large flat surface at the rear of the stage, painted to suggest locale and used with wings in seventeenth, eighteenth,
and nineteenth centuries. In present day Theatre it usually represents a sky.
- BACKING
- A series of flats or drops placed behind doors and windows to mask backstage areas.
- BACKSTAGE
- The entire area behind the proscenium arch, but normally during the action of the play that area which is not seen by
the audience.
- BORDER
- A short curtain hung above the stage to mast the flies from the view of the audience.
- CLAMBAKE
- A poorly constructed or rehearsed program that is much below standard.
- CYCLORAMA (CYC)
- Curtain or canvas usually hung in half circles to cover back and sides of stage. May represent blue of sky or be plain
drop setting.
- DECOR
- Furnishings, properties, draperies, and decorations of setting.
- DOWNSTAGE
- The part of the stage nearest the audience.
- DROP (see backdrop)
- FLAT
- A piece of scenery composed of muslin, canvas, or linen stretched over a wooden frame. Used for walls or backing of a
set.
- FLIES
- The whole area above the stage, back of the proscenium where borders, drops, and pieces of scenery are hung.
- FLY
- To raise scenery above the floor of the stage by use of ropes, battens, etc.
- GRAND DRAPE
- A curtain above the stage and at the top of the proscenium arch. It generally hangs in front of the main curtain and
decorates the top of the stage and reduces the height of the proscenium opening.
- GRIDIRON (GRID)
- Framework of wood or steel above the stage. Used to support and fly scenery.
- GROUND ROW
- Profile scenery at the back of the stage representing trees, shrubbery, hills, etc. Masks the meeting of the stage floor
and the Cyclorama.
- LIGHT LEAK
- Light that can be seen through a crack or opening in the set.
- MASK
- To cover from view of the audience with some type of scenery.
- PLASTIC SCENERY
- Built in three dimensions rather than being painted on a flat surface.
- PRACTICAL
- Scenery that is useable. A door, or window that will open, etc.
- PROPERTIES (PROPS)
- Any article or piece of furniture used by the actor.
- PROSCENIUM ARCH
- The opening in the proscenium through which the audience sees the stage. The picture frame.
- PROSCENIUM
- The wall that separates the audience from the backstage.
- RETURN
- A flat used at the extreme right and left of the stage and running off stage behind the tormentor. Sometimes it serves
as the tormentor.
- SET PIECE
- Scenery that will stand without support. Used especially in nonrealistic productions.
- SKELETON SETTING
- Rudiments of a setting, appealing largely to the imagination of the audience.
- STAGE LEFT
- the left side of the stage as the actor faces the audience.
- STAGE RIGHT
- The right side of the stage as the actor faces the audience.
- TEASER
- Border just upstage and back of the front curtain. Masks the flies and determines the height of the proscenium opening
during the performance. This term is sometimes interchanged with BORDER.
- TORMENTOR
- Flats at extreme down right and left of the stage near the proscenium and masking the backstage areas.
- TRAP
- Opening in the Stage floor, permitting entrances or exits from under the stage floor.
- TURKEY
- Name indicating the dramatic production that has utterly failed.
- UNIT SETTING
- Pieces of scenery - flats, pillars, doors, pylons, arches, etc. That can be put together in various combinations to
furnish different settings.
- UPSTAGE
- Toward the back of the stage. For many years the stage was raked or higher in the back and slanted toward the footlights
and audience. This is still true in some European theatres.
- WINGS
- Off stage space to the left and right of the playing space. Sometimes refers to wing pieces used in series of two or
three on either side of stage as part of wing and backdrop sets.
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