Situated or occurring at or toward the front of a stage.
‘a crowd of dancers occupies the downstage area’
‘His Restoration stage, complete with downstage doors, proscenium and revolving flats is effective and simply adorned with a few choice pieces of furniture along with blue and white accents.’
‘But what one remembers is the the mournful downstage revelry, while upstage a fleshy, ageing chanteuse is mimetically seduced by the MC.’
‘The downstage scene is depicted as a common ground where the actors interact and live out there lives outside of the privacy of their own homes.’
‘Ghostly singing and piano riffs are heard from time to time; scenes end with Hedda downstage center staring at the audience, sometimes followed by her hideous cackle.’
‘Clever staging meant that we were backstage - the curtain and footlights downstage - watching the dancers warm up and interact before a show.’
‘The figure in the front chair downstage left fell face downward.’
‘As Kulick would have it, Leontes collapses prone downstage left, and an attendant nonsensically tosses a bearskin over him.’
‘Candles are ritually placed on a downstage log.’
‘We get two major flashbacks while he freezes on a small platform downstage left.’
‘His upstage entry, like that of both the other principals downstage, is so weak as to have been planned.’
‘A blue scrim downstage tears open dramatically as the first piece begins, and stark black beams divide the stage like some urban forest.’
‘Fine when you were jumping downstage, but not so good when jumping upstage!’
‘A downstage screen, dropped at intervals during the evening, is almost an extra performer, a ‘choral’ auxiliary, helping to glue the parts together.’
‘Dancers popped and rocked downstage; two in-line skaters rocketed back and forth on the ramp, creating a dynamic backdrop.’
‘Opening as described, the lights came up to reveal los chicos in all their flamenco regalia, backed by singers and guitarists downstage.’
‘Everything seemed to need to be further downstage, the peasants and friends needed to surround the principals more, but this clearly felt odd to the dancers.’
‘Let the lead performers stay downstage facing the audience, tell the chorus to stand still, don't try anything clever and just get on with the singing.’
‘I balled up my clothes, dropped them in the corner, and walked downstage.’
‘The major characters interact further downstage, perhaps even on the small forestage, with the party serving as a background to them.’
‘Whenever the action moved downstage, close to the audience, the production sang.’
adverb
At or toward the front of a stage.
‘all four run for their lives downstage’
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