A thrust stage is a stage that extends and is built out into the audience. Three sides are to the audience and is connected to the backstage area. A thrust has the ability to be of greater intimacy from actors to audience than the proscenium. Actors typically make their entrances onto the thrust from the backstage area. A proscenium stage is one that the audience directly faces this stage is a big opening that is like a little window in which the actors pretend there is no audience.. The stage is typically raised several feet above the front row of the audience. The actors usually perform under the proscenium arch.Proscenium stages range in size from small enclosures to several stories tall. A proscenium stage gives the audience one, frontal view while a thrust stage gives the audience three sides and angles.
Thrust Stage
Proscenium Stage
The fly gallery is like a catwalk that runs from the proscenium stage wall upstage to the upstage wall. A pinrail can be mounted. This narrow, elevated platform is used for the fly crew to operate the fly system. This is the place where props and actors can be elevated from using ropes. This area can hold scenery, props, and people offstage.
Scrims are extensively used in theaters. Scrims provide a variety of uses for special effect purposes. Scrims are made out of a wide variety of materials. Scrims were intricately used as part of the Bejing Olympic Stadium. Scrims were used during the opening ceremonies as the screen where scenes where projected. When light shines on the front of a scrim, the scrim blocks everything. When light is behind a scrim, everything can be seen clearly.
Material used as scrims.
Scrims used in a theater.
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