forestage

IPA: fˈɔrʌsteɪdʒ

noun

  • The part of a theatre stage in front of the closed curtain.
  • A preliminary or developmental stage.
  • (obsolete) Forecastle.
  • (UK, law, historical) A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters.
  • (UK, law, historical) A service paid by foresters to the king.

verb

  • (theater) To block so that someone or something appears in the forestage.
  • (by extension) To make prominent; to bring into focus.
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Examples of "forestage" in Sentences

  • Both the forestage and the scenic stage were raked.
  • A low railing gave a finished appearance to the forestage.
  • Two columns divided it into forestage, middle stage, and inner stage areas.
  • The Dorset Garden theatre had a large forestage, a typically English feature.
  • The action took place on the forestage as if it was the stage of the opera house, looking into the auditorium.
  • Invariably a stage manager would come out onto the forestage to give his ritual—and totally useless—admonition, “The gentlemen in the Balcony will kindly stop shooting missiles at the noods.”
  • Contrary to Anneland, a veritable honey-bee running through pedals like so many flowers, Pettersen idled in the forestage, occupying himself with a single loop pedal and layering his riffs over and against each other with mounting baroque complexity.
  • Outside the main stage, however, in the forestage areas on both sides, set designer Ulfat Gouda placed two mini realistic sets, facing each other, one representing a corner of an ornate sitting room in a gorgeous palace, alternately occupied by the Khedive and Shawqi, and the other, part of a drab living room in a humble home, alternately occupied by Hafiz and the modern historian.

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