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forestage

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forestage
1. That part of a theater stage which is on the audience side of the proscenium or stage curtain.
2.See apron, 8.
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9) The projecting edge of a platform, also called the forestage (or apron) had been shortened so as to be pushed back into the shell of the theatre and in its place was put the orchestra pit which is still to be found in more or less the same position across the world even if in different manifestations.
Optics for the stage curtains of the Surabhi Company by Kapur, Anuradha / Marg, A Magazine of the Arts
Samuele, a patrician who had already garnered the gratitude of Goldoni for having lodged him in his home, married Catterina Loredan, the Doge's only granddaughter: among the friends that Mocenigo invited to the great wedding banquet held in the Ducal Palace was also the author of L'Amor della Patria, who on that convivial occasion also had the opportunity to make a sort of forestage parade among the patricians, who overwhelmed him with courtesies.
Carlo Goldoni and Venetian Freemasonry by Del Piero, Negro / Italica
Editing might contrast forestage and backstage spaces, but only the duration of a take and the mobility of the camera can pass continuously from one behaviorally-defined space to the other.
Notes on the long take in George Cukor's A life of her own by O'Neill, Edward R. / CineAction
 
 
 
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