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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a dark stage" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a stage that has low lighting, often in the context of a performance or theatrical setting.
Example: "As the lights dimmed, the actors took their positions on a dark stage, ready to begin the performance."
Alternatives: "a dimly lit stage" or "an unlit stage".
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Outsize frames and panels surround a dark stage.
The curtain goes up on a dark stage.
A woman hangs from a crimson drape in light on a dark stage.
"Les Noces," begins, as does "Maple Garden," with pricks of light cutting through a dark stage.
'I went through a dark stage after I started taking the hormones.
There is also a filmic quality to all three pieces, which unfold in brief episodes on a dark stage.
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Mac DeMarco's set is sun-soaked and relaxed – audience members scrawl on the grass as he gives a sly grin for every line on "Salad Days" - while Gaz Coombes stalks a darker stage with material from his latest LP Matador.
Instantly the atmosphere is different from the rehearsals and the air of anticipation is palpable across the orchestra as we go into the Overture following our cue of three onstage clicks of a cigarette lighter from Flórez on a very dark stage.
She looks at a picture of herself joyously dancing across a big, dark stage.
It isn't used anymore, and someone has made off with the red velvet curtain, but it still has a sombre dark stage and high-backed chairs, and the gravid air of a place where things might happen.
Mostly the characters just shuffle around a gloomily dark stage, each in firm possession of his or her own shaft of smoky light, and recount in musical soliloquy their perspectives on this woeful tale of human overreaching.
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