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Thrust Stage
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Thrust Stage
Period: 3
By: Julia Charnitsky and Naomii Gonzalez
Stage Parts
The audience surrounds the stage
on three sides and connected to the back stage (stage house) by the up stage (stage)
Any Interesting Facts
History
Pros and Cons
Pros:
- It's less expensive
- Audience is on three sides so it needs to be minimal.
- Allows more layering in lighting.
- The performers are a lot closer and intimate with the audience.
Cons:
- It's a blend of a proscenium stage and arena stage.
- Versatile uses and limited amount of realistic scenery.
- More complicated- light actors so they look good on all three sides.
- Takes away prime seating and adds it to the sides.
- The original Globe was an Elizabethan theater that opened in Autumn 1599
- The theater was created by William Shakespeare and his company, and was home to a large majority of his famous plays
- During the medieval period, a medieval audience would gather around traveling wagons called "Pageant Wagons"
Famous Thrust Stages
- The ANTA Washington Square Theater
- The La Nouba stage in Downtown Disney in Florida
- The Ethel M. Barber Theater at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois
Myths, Legends, and Bad Words of Theater
Plays and Musicals Preformed on Thrust Stages
Fun Facts
- Wurtele Thrust stage had a Christmas Carol
- An Audience with Meow Meow was played on a Thrust stage.
- Meiley-Swallow was a musical played on a Thrust stage.
Work Cited
- There are two types of thrust stages: Thrust Stage and Thrust Stage with Proscenium Arch.
- In this theater development, many different techniques were employed.
Superstition: It’s considered good luck traditionally to give the director and/or the leading lady, after closing night, a bouquet of flowers stolen from a graveyard (never give flowers before a performance – They are yet to earn them so it’s bad luck!) Graveyard flowers are given on closing night to symbolize the death of the show, and that it can now be put to rest.
Superstitions: Ghosts haunt theaters and should be given one night a week alone on the stage.Depending on your theater the stories will change, but there is one specific ghost, Thespis, who has a reputation for causing unexplained mischief. Thespis, of Athens (6th BC) was the first person to speak lines as an individual actor on stage, thus the term “Thespian” to refer to a theatrical performer was born. To keep the ghosts of the theater subdued, there should be at least one night a week where the theater is empty, this night is traditionally a Monday night, conveniently giving actors a day off after weekend performances.