Giving directions on stage

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The importance of position in stage, it is important to always give directions from the audience's point of view.

The numbers are the amount of revelance it has on stage (being level 1 the highest). The letter consist on how to say it:

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CS: Center Stage

DSC: Downstage Center - 1, highest level of relevance on stage.

DSL: Downstage Left - 5

DSR: Downstage Right - 3

USC: Upstage Center - 2

USL: Upstage Left - 6, lowest level of relevance on stage.

USC: Upstage Right - 4

If, for instance, on CS there is not nothing maybe nothing is important then.

It is also important the position of the people and objects on stage and their movements, this can be seen with these two concepts:

Proxemics - term that refers to the postition of actors anf objects on stage.

Kinetics - the movement of the people, and sometimes objects, on stage.

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I think it is really important to become familiar with these terms in order to have a more visual concept of a play, I never had played attention before to the position of things and people on stage and it really makes a difference to notice where they stand and how are things placed in order to put more emphasis on them for her viewer or not.