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Rake 斜台
A stage floor built on a slope, higher upstage than downstage. It changes sightlines, and it also changes how anything on wheels or with a high centre of gravity behaves, so trucks, rostra and furniture destined for a rake have to be built and braked for it.
中文
上舞台高、下舞台低的斜面舞台。除了改變視線，也改變所有有輪子、重心高的東西的行為，所以要放上斜台的推車、平台和家具，都必須為斜度另外設計並加上煞車。
Regional usage
| Where | Term | Note |
|---|---|---|
| UK | Rake | Usually quoted as a ratio such as one in twenty-four. |
| HK / TW | 斜台 |
Easy to get wrong
「斜度」也用來講觀眾席的坡度。觀眾席斜度和舞台斜度是兩件事，一個場地可以只有其中一個。
A raked seating figure in a venue spec is not a stage rake figure. Reading one as the other has put scenery on the wrong geometry more than once.
Castors that are safe on a flat deck can run away on a rake. A rake changes the risk assessment for every wheeled item, not just the sightlines.
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Sources
- Parts of a theatre — Wikipedia primary
- Stage (theatre) — Wikipedia
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