open stage
Audience-surrounded performance area
An open stage is a theater configuration where the performance area extends into the audience space without a proscenium arch or curtain separating actors from viewers.
The audience typically surrounds the stage on three sides, creating intimacy and breaking the "fourth wall" effect of traditional theater: The play was staged in the round on an open stage.
- amphitheaterOpen-air tiered venue
- theater in the roundPerformance space audiences encircle
- thrustForceful forward motion
- platformRaised flat structure
- audienceGathered viewers collectively
performer · live performance · curtain · spotlight · arena · proscenium · wings · backdrop · fourth wall · rehearsal · dress rehearsal · microphone · applause · standing ovation · theater · black box · round · bare