Spelling Word List: GCSE Drama Staging and Stage Positions

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When you describe design ideas in the written exam, it's important you understand and can use these terms.

	thrust	A thrust stage has audience on three sides but the back goes straight to backstage with no audience nearby. *
	end	An end on stage fills up one end of the space with the audience filling the rest. *
	proscenium	A proscenium arch stage is the traditional kind, with the audience at the front, curtains and an apron in front of the curtains. *
	traverse	A traverse stage fills the middle of the space from one end to the other, with the audience on either side. *
	round	Theatre in the round is where the stage is in the middle of the space, with the audience all around it. *
	upstage	Upstage is the part of the stage closest to the audience. *
	downstage	Downstage is the part of the stage furthest away from the audience. *
	centre	Centre stage is the middle of the stage. *

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