Stage Types - Traverse
Traverse Stage Configuration
Traverse offers an intimate setting and has also been used to great effect in larger productions. For example in 1991 The Derby Playhouse Community Theatre mounted a large scale production based on the events on Christmas Day in the trenches of World War 2 in 1914. The German and British armies (composed of a cast of hundreds) faced each other across the stage.
Traverse is (not surprisingly) well suited to scenes of confrontation; however its catwalk feeling makes for dynamic fast paced entrances when called for.
