Such screens conserve light but cannot be used in a theatre with a wide audience area.
About five minutes before the players arrived the front half of the audience area was closed.
At the start of the period, the audience area was most often rectangular, but it also took the shape of a U, a horseshoe, and a bell.
The Secret Service quickly explained on Wednesday afternoon that there was no security reason for preventing reporters from entering the audience area at campaign events, making clear that the restriction came from the campaign, not the agency.
The term auditorium is also applied commonly to a large lecture room in a college, to a reception room in a monastery, and, rarely, to the audience area in a religious building.
Moving aside the tables in the audience area, he braced himself against the back of a chair to create an ad hoc tripod, aimed his camera at the stage and waited for the object of his obsession.
Even one loud, foul-mouthed oaf on the edge of the audience area and a host of helicopters whirring overhead seemed designed as foils for "In Formations," an elegant yet innocent site-specific work.
MEANWHILE, Mr. Wilson interrupts his work to chide the company for leaving shoes, bags, food and water bottles around the audience area -- "Please, I just work better in a room that has an order" -- after which his stage manager reminds him that he has to call Russia.
The orchestra shell and various ceiling/wall reflectors were planned to provide more early reflections to the audience area.
