Traverse Theatre is a type of staging that allows the audience to be seated on the left and right side of the stage where the actors are located. An example of this type of staging is used in the picture below were it is compared to Thrust Staging. Traverse Theatre was created in 1963 in an abandoned brothel in Edinburgh's Lawnmarket. The theatre is named this because of it's Artistic Director, Terry Lane.
When performing on a Traverse stage it can be quite difficult for the actor to be viewed by both audiences, on the left and right of the actor, at the same time. So a trick we actors pull is to turn and keep facing our bodies in different ways that the audiences can see our actions.
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