Groundrow

The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre | 1996 | 696 words | Copyright

Groundrow, originally a strip of gas lights laid flat along the stage to illuminate the foot of a back scene. As a term in stage lighting it was later applied to the rows of electric bulbs fixed on a batten and sunk into the stage floor, or masked. The name is now given to all low cut-out strips of scenery, made of canvas stretched on wood, like a flat laid on its side and cut along its upper edge to represent, for instance, a hedge with a stile in it or a bank topped by low bushes. Series of groundrows, set one behind the other with their top edges cut to represent waves, and so arranged as to allow the passage of a stage boat between them, are known as Set Waters, or Sea or Water Rows.

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