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thrust stage in American English a stage consisting of a raised platform extending from one end of a theater or from the proscenium, with audience seating on three sides thrust stage in American Englishnouna stage that extends beyond the proscenium arch and is usually surrounded on three sides by seats Examples of 'thrust stage' in a sentencethrust stage The 300-seat main house is steeply raked with a small thrust stage.The famous thrust stage has for now become a baroque piazza.It was built with an experimental 'thrust' stage to maximise intimacy between performers and public.These line the new 400-seat auditorium, which still has a strangely huge thrust stage.The thrust stage, he thinks, is more friendly to movement than to verbal communication with the audience that now surrounds it.The cattle were even better, with - as we say in the theatre - a thrust stage and tiers of buyers.But after more than 40 years' full-thrust stage performances, it was remarkable that his knees allowed him to rise after receiving his honour.Its auditorium was a bit weird, with a huge thrust stage and shallow rows of cinema seating round it.It includes a new thrust stage in the main auditorium, designed so that no audiencemember is more than 15m away from the action.Thrust stages were replaced by proscenium arches, complete with curtains, in the 17th century. |