Crepe hair is used for men's mustaches and beards. Wigs may be from synthetic hair. Stage lights supply dramatic visibility that adds meaning to the play, the setting, and the actor's performance. No other tool of the theatre art can establish mood and atmosphere so effectively. The well-equipped theatre may use 50 or more lighting instruments and s switchboard of almost limitless flexibility to light a single production.
Instruments are of two general types-floodlights and spotlights.
Border lights and footlights are types of floodlights. They are used for general lighting, to give tone to the setting and the playing area. Spotlights are used to light the actor. Ordinarily the downstage acting areas are lighted from in front of the curtain-lights on a ceiling beam, on a balcony front, or in a trough suspended from the ceiling. The upstage areas are lighted from a bridge or pipe mounted directly behind the curtain.