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Question:what are the nine basic stage areas?

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Oh dear. I hope some of these people who have answered are not stage managers. Lol.

Basic 9-area breakdown:

Upstage left, Upstage Centre, Upstage Right
Centrestage left, Centrestage, Centrestage right
Downstage left, Downstage Centre, Downstage right

Commonly denoted in Prompt scripts: USL, USC, USR, CSL, CS, CSR, DSL, DSC, DSR. The term Centre centre is used mainly in dance/musicals, referring to the dead centre point of the stage.

Remember: stage left refers to actor's left, not house left. Stage right refers to actor's right, not house right.

http://www.redbirdstudio.com/AWOL/stage....

This one shows 16, if you count the apron

Smaller stage would dispance with center left, etc.

So you'd have up stage right, left center
downstage right, left, center
right, left and center

The Stage is Basically Like a Grid:
Front left, Front Center, Front Right, Middle left, Middle center, Middle right, Back Left, Back Center, Back right.
______________________________________...
Back Plane
______________________________________...
Middle Plane
______________________________________...
Front Plane
______________________________________...
*******************Audience***********...

Within The Plains There Are three sections: Left, Center and Right.

Back Right : Back Center : Back Left

Middle Right : Middle Center : Middle Left

Front Right : Front Center : Front Left
******************Audience************...

Hope This Helps!

up right, up center, up left
right center, center, left center
down right, down center, down left

These are the classic definitions used in most stage directions. Remember that left and right are reversed from the audiences point of view. Also, back and front are not useful terms, as they are supposed to refer to the actor rather than the stage. We use up and down instead, because stages historically are "raked", meaning slanted so that the part furthest from the audience is also the highest, or "up-stage".

The answer with the planes is helpful except her terminology is wrong. The back of the stage, farthest from the audience is UP and the front, nearest the audience, is DOWN. And it is not called Middle Center it is called CENTER . Do not give that person best answer even though her diagram is helpful.