A-Level戏剧-表演条件（18.19世纪）Performance Conditions.

Background on Victorian Theatre
18th Century

• Stage and Stage Machinery
• Proscenium arch theatres- fore-stage projecting just beyond
• Downstage> door for entrances and exits
• And/Or doors upstage for P.Arch
• Back of Stage formed by shutters
• Lighting>Gas from footlights and auditorium
• Once curtain up at beginning and down at the end > scene changes visible

Changes in 19th century

• Very few downstage doors left in theatres
• Orchestra pit lower than stage, replaces the fore-stage= picture frame stage.
• Creating illusion- a "picture" This was important to Victorians
• By 1880, Bancroft put a huge gilded frame around stage at Haymarket Theatre in London
• Provides a big divide between actors and audience
• Contrast to Elizabethan aim for productions.
• Stage itself often larger than auditorium (including wings) Need space of stage in both wings
• The height of stage is twice as high as the proscenium arch i.e. around 60ft
• Depth of stage varied enormously
• Area under stage was excavated for machinery space.
• Above stage machinery Things "flying" down from the tower. A gridiron- a wooden structure with stage cloths.
• "Act Drops" hide away any scene changes.
• Painted front curtain> up at beginning, down at the end.
• Ropes on pulleys> pulled by hand and all manually managed.
• Fly galleries connected by ladders and/or catwalks.
• "Fly men" controlling this on signal from director or prompter.
• The underside of the lowest fly gallery would hold shutters in grooves.
• Shutters painted in standardized way- pre-painted to depict certain scenes. i.e. castle, palace, forest.

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