I KNOW...Long Time, No Hear From Me! Breaking the Fourth Wall. What IS the 4th Wall?
On Stage, like in ANY room, there are FOUR walls: there is the Right Wall (Stage Right, which is the Audience's LEFT Side of the Stage as THEY look at the Stage); the Left Wall (Stage Left or the Audience's RIGHT Side of the Stage as THEY look at the Stage); the Back Wall ( or what we Performers call UP Stage); and FINALLY, where the Audience is sitting, or the FOURTH WALL. Normally as Performers, we do not "Break" the Fourth Wall, which means we don't look out into the Fourth Wall as if to look AT anything or, more specifically, ANYONE SPECIFICALLY. HOWEVER, there ARE occasions which mark exceptions.