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Theatre Arts for Advanced Secondary Schools
Outdoor theatre stage
This is a kind of stage whereby theatre performances are performed in the open
air, in buildings with no walls or ceiling and they are rarely with lights and sound
amplification. The outdoors theatre is not expensive compared to indoors. The
example of outdoors stage is TaSUBa’s Mwembeni stage in Bagamoyo. The
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outdoors theatre stage may accommodate a large number of audiences than
indoors. Figure 3.19 shows how an outdoor stage looks like.
Figure 3. 19: An outdoor stage or open-air stage
Exercise 3.3
1. You and your friends are invited for a theatre performance. As a theatre
student, you are curious to know how the stage looks like. Upon arrive at
the stage, you find out that the stage has wings to the right and left. The
audience are sitting towards the stage which has curtains, briefly draft an
explanation of the stage where the performance is taking place that you
will give to your friends to read.
2. Your backbencher friends did not understand the lesson on types of
theatre stages. They request you to explain the style of stage where the
audience sits in the three sides of the stage.
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