Footlights Trap

The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre | 1996 | 394 words | Copyright

Footlights Trap, long rectangular opening at the front of the stage before the curtain, with a post below at either end. Between the posts a framework slid up and down, and upon this the lamps of the footlights were arranged. They were lowered (according to an account of 1810) not only to enable a stage hand in the cellar to trim them, but so that the stage might, upon occasion, be darkened.

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