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Answer for the clue "Actor's area ", 9 letters:
downstage
Alternative clues for the word downstage
Word definitions for downstage in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of the front half of a stage [ant: upstage ] adv. at or toward the front of the stage; "the actors moved further and further downstage" [ant: upstage ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
downstage \downstage\ adv. (Theater) at the front half of the stage; as, the dialog is clearer when conducted downstage. Opposite of upstage .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I walk downstage and I notice all the people in the audience.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
At the front of a stage adv. 1 toward or at the front of a theatrical stage 2 towards a motion picture or television camera n. the part of a stage that is closest to the audience or camera v (label en medicine) (context transitive English) To restage (a ...
Usage examples of downstage.
White columns rise on the veranda, running from downstage left to upstage left center.
The parlour carries through the stark elegance of the house, with plain chairs flanking a sideboard upstage right center, a fireplace with long straight mantel at right, and the corner of a spinet showing at downstage right.
Seeing someone offstage left, where he is facing, THOMAS waves, calls out as he descends from the veranda and WILLIAM follows to downstage left.
At downstage left center a rather ponderous desk littered with mail and newspapers, two chairs, and the effect of being partitioned off in a large glassed enclosure from the rest of the office beyond, reached by a glass-paneled door upstage right.
Cabinets of some sort, acceptable in but hardly designed for an office, stand within the inner office downstage right.
Neatly but unostentatiously dressed, THOMAS is standing at a window left staring out, as MR BAGBY advances from upstage right toward downstage center desk.
Edging up to the desk at downstage center as he talks, BAGBY twists his head to get a look at the letters opened there as THOMAS turns thoughtfully from the window and crosses to downstage center slowly, treating BAGBY in an almost humouring but patronizing way, and with an assumed reassurance he had not had in Act I.
THOMAS appears walking slowly from downstage right, head bowed, unaware of the figure awaiting him near stage center, a SOLDIER dressed in the worn blue uniform of the Union army and displaying a decided limp, played by the same person who plays WILLIAM in Act I but made up a good twenty years older so there may be no confusion that it is WILLIAM.
Pyrotechnic lights rise over stage with reeling effect and fade gradually as smoke clears to reveal the body of one SOLDIER draped over an inclined cannon barrel and three or four figures flung still at downstage left.
Less shyly, he moved downstage in the dusk mitigated by a working light and tried certain lines: "By God, I will follow them to London and make my fortune there, acting plays and eke writing them.
Boys carrying publicity posters -- HENRY VI I II & III -- RICHARD III -- thread through the dancers while Will, downstage centre, repeats his song.
He strode quite sturdily downstage to the very edge of the apron and addressed the audience: "A mask, a copy, a travesty.
Enderby took the boy downstage and addressed the audience: "The title, incidentally, must not be misunderstood.
Farther downstage, at right, is a table for the defendant and attorneys.
Farther downstage is a door through which spectators enter the courtroom.