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Arena
A theatre in which the audience completely surrounds the stage or playing area. Actor entrances to the playing area are provided through vomitories or gaps in the seating arrangement.
Thrust
A theatre in which the stage is extended so that the audience surrounds it on three sides. The thrust stage may be backed by an enclosed proscenium stage, providing a place for background scenery, but audience views into the proscenium opening are usually limited. Actor entrances are usually provided to the front of the thrust through vomitories or gaps in the seating.
End stage
A theatre in which the audience seating and stage occupy the same architectural space, with the stage at one end and the audience seated in front facing the stage.
Environmental theatre
A found space in which the architecture of the space is intrinsic to the performance, or a theatre space that is transformed into a complete environment for the performance. The audience space and performance space are sometimes intermingled, and the action may be single-focus or multiple-focus. In environmental theatre, the physical space is an essential part of the performance.
Promenade theatre
A theatre without fixed seating in the main part of the auditorium – this allows the standing audience to intermingle with the performance and to follow the focal point of the action to different parts of the room. Multiple-focus action and a moving audience are the primary characteristics of the promenade theatre.
Black box theatre
A flexible theatre usually without character or embellishment—a “void” space that may indeed be black, but isn’t always. Usually, audience seating is on the main floor, with no audience galleries, though a technical gallery may be provided.
Studio theatre
A flexible theatre with one or more audience galleries on three or four sides of a rectangular room. The main floor can usually be reconfigured into arena, thrust, endstage, and flat floor configurations. The room usually has some architectural character.
Courtyard theatre
The term courtyard theatre embraces a range of theatre forms, all with the common characteristic of at least one raised seating gallery surrounding a central area. Often this central area is flexible, and can be configured into arena, thrust, end stage, and flat floor configurations. Sometimes the central area has fixed seating that faces a proscenium opening and stage. Inspired by the Shakespearean theatre of Elizabethan times
Spaces for media interaction
Of course all theatres are spaces for interaction, but since the late twentieth century a new type of space has developed. Artists and scientists are using these media-intense spaces for performance, research, and instruction.
These spaces are highly flexible, usually with no fixed seating, and almost always with a high degree of acoustic adjustability. Other features may include extensive media recording and playback capability, immersive environments, and electronic communication with remote spaces for distance learning, distributed ensembles, remote performance, and other opportunities.