Give and take stage

Also called: Give focus · Take focus

Steering the audience's attention. You give stage by turning or moving to point focus at someone else, and take it by doing the opposite.

ActorsDirectors

When does this happen on your show?Type your opening night and see every milestone dated.

UpstageThe part of the stage farthest from the audience. It dates from raked stages that sloped up toward the back wall.
Stage pictureWhat the audience would see if you froze the moment: who stands where, how high, facing which way. Directors shape it to tell the story.

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