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apron stage

noun

  1. a stage that projects into the auditorium so that the audience sit on three sides of it
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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At the push of a button, an apron stage hydraulically unfolded itself into position.

The introduction of electric lights abolished the necessity of the "apron" stage and made possible the picture-frame proscenium; and the removal of the "apron" struck the death-blow to the Drama of Conversation and led directly to the Drama of Illusion.

Acting, however, was still largely conventional; for the "apron" stage survived, with its semicircle of footlights, and every important piece of stage business had to be done within their focus.

With the "apron" stage arose a more natural form of play than had been produced upon the Elizabethan platform.

Philander and Galatea played upon the apron stage.

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