Revolving Stage

The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre | 1996 | 675 words | Copyright

Revolving Stage, scenic device which originated in the kabuki theatre in Japan in the 17th century, and was brought into Europe at the end of the 19th century. The advantage of it was that three or even more scenes could be set in advance on the revolve and presented to the audience in turn. The scenery itself could be solid built stuff, but considerable ingenuity was needed to fit the pieces into the various segments of a circle, and to overcome this it is now usual to combine a revolving section with laterally and vertically moving stage machinery. The Lyttelton and Olivier stages at the National Theatre in London incorporate a disc and a drum revolve respectively.

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