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actors arbor attached audience backstage board foot bolted bracing butt joints cable canvas castors ceiling clamped cleats construction corner block counterweight system crew members cyclorama designer door flat doweled joint draperies drilled edge face fireplace flat frames floor props flying folded furniture glue grid HALVED JOINT handle hanger irons hinged horizontal joined knot lash line length lift jacks light locking loft blocks lower lumber main curtain mechanical advantage metal method mortise and tenon mounted nailed offstage onstage operating line painted papier-mâché periaktoi pipe batten placed Plate plywood position production property master proscenium arch pull pulley rail rehearsal revolve rigging right angles rigid platforms rope sabre saw screwed setting shape side snatch lines space stage floor stage manager stairway stiles stock scenery strap iron supporting frames tacks technician theatre track upstage vertical wagon wall weight width winch window