✖ actor spike
⌞ set spike
→ cross (movement)
─ setting line / proscenium
┊ centre line
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Enchant Entertainment · Kwinana-based · Est. 2018 · $10M public liability, fully insured · ABN 55 936 767 411The Stage Plan and Blocking Planner is a free, browser-based ground plan and blocking tool for stage managers, directors, assistant stage managers and drama teachers. Build a scaled top-down plan of your stage, drop in set pieces and furniture from a ready-made palette, place labelled actor tokens, and map where everyone stands and moves scene by scene. Because staging changes with every entrance and exit, the planner lets you create a separate frame for each scene, beat or French scene, then duplicate and adjust it as rehearsals evolve, exactly the way a prompt book grows on paper. Stage directions are locked to real theatre geography, so upstage, downstage, stage right and stage left all read from the actor's point of view (stage right is the audience's left), and the audience edge is always marked. Add movement arrows, plan your spike marks, note the line or cue that triggers each move, then print or export a clean page per scene for your prompt book. Everything runs in your browser with no login and no account, so your plan stays on your own device. Built by Enchant Entertainment, a Perth AV and event production company, for anyone who needs to plan blocking clearly and share it with a cast and crew.
Upstage is away from the audience toward the back wall; downstage is toward the audience. The terms come from old raked stages where the back was higher.
Always from the actor's point of view facing the audience. Stage right is therefore the audience's left (house left). This is the rule the tool locks in.
The stage is divided into nine areas by combining US/centre/DS with SR/centre/SL, e.g. DSR, centre, USL. Blocking is spoken in these terms.
Blocking is the planned positions and movement of actors for each moment. A cross is a move from one position to another, e.g. "X DSL", notated with an arrow.
A unit of the script that begins or ends whenever a character enters or exits, so it always shows exactly who is on stage.
The stage manager's master copy of the script, traditionally with the ground plan and blocking on the page facing the text. Written in pencil because it changes.
A floor mark (usually tape) showing the exact spot for a set piece or actor so it lands the same every show. A cross marks a performer, an L a furniture corner.
The centre line runs upstage to downstage through the middle; the setting line runs across the stage (often the proscenium) and set positions are measured from it.
Yes, it is completely free and there is no login or account. The tool runs entirely in your browser, so your plan stays on your own device unless you choose to export it.
Yes. All stage directions are locked to the actor's point of view facing the audience, so stage right is on the audience's left (house left) and stage left is on the audience's right. The audience edge is clearly marked so the orientation is never ambiguous.
Yes, that is the core idea. You create a separate frame for each scene, beat or French scene, with its own arrangement of set and actors. You can duplicate a scene to carry the previous staging forward and then adjust it, which matches how blocking develops in rehearsal.
A French scene is a unit of the script that starts or ends whenever a character enters or exits, so it always shows exactly who is on stage. The planner lets you make a new frame at each of these moments and note the wing or door each character uses to come on and off.
Yes. You can lay out spike marks (a cross for an actor position, an L for furniture) to plan what the crew will tape onto the deck, add the trigger line or cue in the notes panel, and print or export one clean page per scene to slot into your prompt book.
You can set the stage width and depth and add an apron or thrust, and the plan is drawn to scale, so it reflects your actual space rather than a generic box. That keeps distances and spike positions meaningful for your venue.
Yes. You can print or export your plans, one page per scene with a legend, so directors, actors and crew can all work from the same clear document. You can also save the whole plan as a file to back it up or hand to someone else.
No. The tool uses plain English with built-in stage terms, so directors, assistant stage managers, drama teachers and students can use it as easily as experienced stage managers.
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