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forestage

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fore·stage  (fôrstj, fr-)
n.
The part of a stage in front of the closed curtain.
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Noun1.forestageforestage - the part of a modern theater stage between the curtain and the orchestra (i.e., in front of the curtain)
proscenium, apron
footlights - theater light at the front of a stage that illuminate the set and actors
prompt box, prompter's box - a booth projecting above the floor in the front of a stage where the prompter sits; opens toward the performers on stage
stage - a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience; "he clambered up onto the stage and got the actors to help him into the box"
theater stage, theatre stage - a stage in a theater on which actors can perform
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Missionaries, persecutors, and the faithful played out the main drama on the nearly bare forestage, but the images that guided and haunted them - priests celebrating Mass back in Portugal, a Japanese magistrate on a thronelike seat, Japanese converts crucified on a beach - appeared through the scrim, so that they seemed to exist in a separate reality.
Silence by Wren, Celia / Commonweal
Delayed completion of works to the Place Ovale (a monumental but crude hippodrome of housing enclosing a floriferous traffic roundabout) has however meant that the panoply of embellishments and finishes planned by Fiszer for the stepped approach to the parvis or forestage of his civic cultural monument (plinths, sculpture, uplighters, and so on) has not yet been fully implemented.
Coup de theatre by Meade, Martin / The Architectural Review
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