Definition of "footlight" [foot•light]

• A stage light located at the front edge of the stage that illuminates the actors from foot level up. (noun)

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• "And another regrettable thing about death is the ceasing of your own brand of magic, which took a whole life to develop and market - the quips, the witticisms, the slant adjusted to a few, those loved ones nearest the lip of the stage, their soft faces blanched in the footlight glow, their laughter close to tears, their warm pooled breath in and out with your heartbeat, their response and your performance twinned."
• "So what crosses the footlight and projects its emotion to me is what I'm listening for."
• ""No one ever accused us of being over-rehearsed," Stephen Stills says at one point, shortly before he's shown tripping over a footlight on the stage and playing flat on his back while he rolls from side to side trying to get himself back up."