<p>I’m working on a theatre assignment where I need to talk about set design.</p>
<p>Can someone tell me what these are called in proper theatre terminology?
A kind of a “treadmill” built into the stage, often used in concerts and musicals, where actors can really walk, but they are walking on the spot
areas of the stage that can come up from the pit (say, if an entrance of a character requires them to appear out of the ground, they would enter by standing on the “…”)</p>
<p>Large movable sections of a stage floor that move vertically are called an ‘elevator’. Each elevator may cover the full width of the stage and be up to two meters in depth, able to be raised higher or lower than the normal level of the stage floor. Elevators may also be called ‘lifts’ or ‘bridges’.
Smaller sections of the stage floor just large enough to allow a performer to appear or disappear are referred to as a trap. Simple traps may be nothing more than a section of floor that is lifted up or lowered.</p>
<p>The largest and possibly the most versatile piece of stage floor machinery must be the ‘revolve’. It is capable of allowing scenery to be brought into view of the audience, or of providing a treadmill-effect, allowing actors to walk while remaining at the same point of the stage.</p>