She goes to listen at door 5, then reassuring herself, she comes more cheerfully downstage, a little towards the garden.
What would be more obvious to the two actors than to deliver this moving climactic ending from downstage?
He proudly, slovenly, defiantly makes his way downstage.
The downstage wings needed to be about 5 feet wide.
Parolles might be, say, 'downstage left', facing the audience on that side of the playhouse.
Coming forward downstage, they then leap over the red rope.
Actors located in what we might describe today as 'downstage left' would be significantly 'upstage' when seen from the perspective of spectators at 'stage right'.
The viewer's normal actions provide no distance information beyond the plane labeled "backdrop" and they can readily generate and therefore incorporate information about the downstage prop.
