apron stage

British  

noun

1. a stage that projects into the auditorium so that the audience sit on three sides of it

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Example Sentences

At the push of a button, an apron stage hydraulically unfolded itself into position.

From Time Magazine Archive

With the "apron" stage arose a more natural form of play than had been produced upon the Elizabethan platform.

From The Theory of the Theatre by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker

Acting, however, was still largely conventional; for the "apron" stage survived, with its semicircle of footlights, and every important piece of stage business had to be done within their focus.

From The Theory of the Theatre by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker

Philander and Galatea played upon the apron stage.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Summers, Montague