| The water, representing the Milky Way that kept the lovers apart, ran downstage to the footlights, and into a basin. |
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| The set of her head at downstage left and the slight angle of the jaw conveyed queenliness and deadly resolve. |
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| A blue scrim downstage tears open dramatically as the first piece begins, and stark black beams divide the stage like some urban forest. |
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| Looming downstage is the Seneca, carrying a full cargo of lore, from search-and-rescue adventures to drug and migrant interdictions. |
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| The news blared out on the television set that occupied and lit up the downstage area. |
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| Suddenly, as if on cue, he straightened his shoulders and walked downstage to greet his public. |
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| Kit Conner enters upstage left and crosses to downstage right and sits down on the table with feet on chair. |
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| The major characters interact further downstage, perhaps even on the small forestage, with the party serving as a background to them. |
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| Fine when you were jumping downstage, but not so good when jumping upstage! |
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| 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. |
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| As Kulick would have it, Leontes collapses prone downstage left, and an attendant nonsensically tosses a bearskin over him. |
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| We get two major flashbacks while he freezes on a small platform downstage left. |
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| Whenever the action moved downstage, close to the audience, the production sang. |
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| Opening as described, the lights came up to reveal los chicos in all their flamenco regalia, backed by singers and guitarists downstage. |
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| His upstage entry, like that of both the other principals downstage, is so weak as to have been planned. |
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| The stage, tonight, is more or less bare, room enough for Allen to strut downstage towards the audience and seem to be walking for miles. |
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| I balled up my clothes, dropped them in the corner, and walked downstage. |
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| 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. |
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| The figure in the front chair downstage left fell face downward. |
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| 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. |
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| Basic geometric forms include straight lines or rows that extend from wing to wing or from upstage to downstage. |
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| A life-size living room contrasts nicely with a miniature house, a full-size segment of a ship downstage with the entire ship in miniature upstage. |
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| These microphones were typically spaced across the front of the stage for downstage pickup and hung in the fly loft for upstage pickup. |
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| In a typical installation, singers had to stand directly in front of one of the downstage microphones for best results. |
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| But no, on the second night, too, a downstage bush displayed odd behaviour during the Queen of the Wilis' solo. |
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| The diagonal line from upstage left to downstage right makes the longest line on stage and is also a strong path. |
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| Suddenly, she rises, runs downstage and makes the audience the witnesses to her drama. |
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| The fact that they could downstage patients to more surgical options, especially breast-conserving surgery, is important. |
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| The downstage dancer moves with the syncopated rhythm of the sticks. |
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| For example, placing a dancer at the centre of centre stage makes a strong impact, as does moving a dancer along a straight line from upstage centre to downstage centre. |
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| If you're downstage, you'll get a bigger laugh there than if you were standing in the middle of the stage. |
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| They could be made downstage through the audience via steps or ramps from the corners of the thrust. |
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| In theatre, when an actor moves towards the front of the stage, is this known as moving downstage or upstage? |
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| My bun trolley rolls downstage if there is a rake on it and I end up chasing after it as the trolley covers my chest. |
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| Therefore it will be beneficial to decrease the size and downstage the tumour. |
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| He screams, and they all join hands to hips and congo line around the cabin. As they are congoing, Moose puts his keys on a shelf that is located downstage left. |
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| For the trial scene, which was set in an abattoir, a metal ring carrying meat-hooks descended in place of the ring of lights, and another meathook dropped downstage left. |
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| These include neo-adjuvant chemotherapy to downstage tumours, portal vein embolisation with staged liver resections, and tumour ablation using microwave energy. |
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| Since the gap between the furthest downstage edge of the catwalk and the limits of the pit was narrow, it discouraged any movement from one side to the other. |
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| She minimizes all her symptoms, while her spouse, who sits slightly downstage, provides me with nonverbal support as my questions about depression and anxiety roll out. |
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| Co-produced with Lethbridge's New West Theatre, Downstage Theatre presented Drew Hayden Taylor's In a World Created by a Drunken God Oct. |
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