In Shakespeare's time - the groundlings
The front of the stage is known as the apron.
The front of the stage is the portion closest to the audience.
There were the groundlings (people who stood on the floor I front of the stage) and the higher class who sat on wooden benches on the three tiers of the theatre
The king
1. Row the boat to the dock so we can get out.2. Put them all into one row.
ashton
If they sat, they probably sat in the galleries surrounding the stage. It is possible that some of them may have been favoured with a seat on the stage. (Such a thing is dramatised in Beaumont's Knight of the Burning Pestle, in which a merchant and his wife take a seat on the stage.)
Anyone basiclly. But, the poorer people had to sit in "penny seats" so they paid a penny and stood in front of the stage. The richer people sat in cushioned chairs surrounding them.
Front stage is where the audience can see you, backstage is behind the black curtain, out of sight of audience.
They sat at the front when the rich people sat at the back... *@*
I sat in the front seat when I was 5