These are L-shaped, open-air spaces built of stone with a rectangular stage.
The audience surrounds a rectangular stage of thick brown paper strips taped over plastic sheeting on the floor.
The rectangular stage, which was 43 feet wide by 27.5 feet deep (13 by 8.5 metres), was covered by a roof.
After Mr. Simons ducked out of sight, the audience gathered on the low, rectangular stage and moved toward the backstage entrance, applauding the entire time.
There are, first of all, the wanly painted backdrops, which bring to mind a King Arthur coloring book and unscroll above a very provisional-looking rectangular stage of raw wood.
The theater itself is fairly flexible, with booths along the side walls, a low rectangular stage large enough for a decent-size swing band at the front, and tables of various sizes on the floor.
Mr. Earnest and Curtis Young's spare set, which enables a delightful surprise ending, consists of a rectangular stage of soft yellow dirt and a wall-size chalkboard with two entrances.
The contrast of the Chocolate Factory's confined rectangular stage and the speed at which the dancers move is stirring: it somehow mirrors the idea that their minds are racing too.
As a capacity audience crowded onto the benches that surrounded the rectangular stage of the tiny black-box space of the Royal Court Jerwood Theater Upstairs, I could feel my chest tightening and my breath growing shorter.
Ms. Sigman repeats a movement phrase, in which she stalks across the rectangular stage, claps her hands loudly, leans back to thump her chest and then retreats to her corner.
For the Off Broadway play "Hurt Village" last winter Patricia McGregor tried persuading the playwright Katori Hall to support her unusual idea of having the audience sitting on either side of a rectangular stage to create a "three-dimensional" effect.
