Theatre Spaces - Flexible Staging
Flexible staging refers to spaces used for a performance that were not designed for theatrical purposes. There are two primary types of Flexible Staging, Found Space and Black Box.
FOUND SPACE refers to theatre performed anywhere that there is not an established theatre building. This could be in a field, in a museum, in a forrest, and many other places.
A BLACK BOX
theatre is basically a large room
(usually
all black) set up to be used as a theatre space. There is no permanent
seating, or permanent stage. It can be used however the show
needs
it to be used. Many Black Box Theatres were not originally
designed as a Theatre space such as the Thad Smotherman Theatre in the
Law Sone Fine Arts Building on the Texas Wesleyan University Campus.
The space was originally a church.
Updated: 02 February 2011