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box set Naturalistic setting of a complete room built from flats with only the side nearest the audience (the fourth wall) missing. A single static box set that represents more than one room is called a COMPOSITE SET (for example if the living room and the kitchen are both on stage permanently).
Box set A set with three walls leaving the fourth wall to be imagined. The box set can represent a real room with doors and windows that work. Brechtian Drama influenced by the theory and practice of the twentieth century German theatre practitioner Bertolt Brecht.
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TermDefinitionABOVE1) Elizabethan stage directions for a ...ABSTRACT SETTINGA stage setting that is stylized rather ...ACCENT LIGHTINGLighting that stresses certain stage ...ACNAdvanced Control Network. Show control ...box set: a set with three walls and a ceiling, leaving the fourth wall to be imagined by the actors. The box set represents a real room with doors and windows that work. breakaway: a prop that is specifically made to break at a certain point in a play.
house—thus the expression, much loved by theatre managers everywhere—“full house.” Balcony: Strictly speaking, this is the second tier of seating in a theatre, elevated and protruding over the back rows of orchestra or main level seating. Backdrop: A large drapery of painted canvas that provides the rear or upstage masking of a set.
Box set A set with three walls leaving the fourth wall to be imagined. The box set can represent a real room with doors and windows that work. Business Physical activity used to show character, fill a pause in dialogue, or establish a scene. It is often unscripted or improvised and sometimes comic in intention. A playwright
