A view of the stage showing the walls and part of the raised center. v > 0 < n \ \ / I \ \ \ a) Two groups of spectators looking into two streets leading to a common point, continuing beyond their crossroads towards two other groups of spectators, who look into the streets' opposite ends. By drawing four lines connecting together the four extremities of the crossroads, we have the groundplan of the raised center. \ \ .. ,I b) Each group of spectators faces a corner of this raised center. c) In a box stage, two side partitions form the limits of an image. A third is the background of the image. e) The two front lines of a spectator section form an angle opposite a corner of the raised center. f) Two other lines interrupt these two first lines: the groundplan of a spectator section. , * I d) In this theatre, two walls frame the perspective of each group of spectators. A third is behind them. TD~ T \ ,. LJ* . 14 I \ . FALL 1986 continued Oil page 53