Proscenium
noun
The part of a theater stage that is in front of the curtain.
The actors stood on the proscenium ready to start the play.
Often appears as...
- proscenium arch
- proscenium stage
noun
A stage in a theater where the audience view is only from one side.
In a proscenium theater, the audience sits directly in front of the stage.
Often appears as...
- proscenium stage
- proscenium theatre
Usage tips
Technical
noun
The part of a theater stage that is in front of the curtain.
The actors stood on the proscenium ready to start the play.
Often appears as...
- proscenium arch
- proscenium stage
noun
A stage in a theater where the audience view is only from one side.
In a proscenium theater, the audience sits directly in front of the stage.
Often appears as...
- proscenium stage
- proscenium theatre
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
The term 'proscenium' can evoke visual imagery of an elaborate traditional theater setting.
During the tour, we marveled at the ornate proscenium that framed the ancient stage.
Pro Tip 2/3Theatrical Focus
'Proscenium' indicates the specific area where theatrical action is emphasized.
Her monologue took place on the proscenium, capturing the audience's full attention.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Experience
Understanding 'proscenium' can enhance appreciation of theater culture and history.
The guide explained how the proscenium's design contributed to the golden era of theater.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
The term 'proscenium' can evoke visual imagery of an elaborate traditional theater setting.
During the tour, we marveled at the ornate proscenium that framed the ancient stage.
Pro Tip 2/3Theatrical Focus
'Proscenium' indicates the specific area where theatrical action is emphasized.
Her monologue took place on the proscenium, capturing the audience's full attention.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Experience
Understanding 'proscenium' can enhance appreciation of theater culture and history.
The guide explained how the proscenium's design contributed to the golden era of theater.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
The term 'proscenium' can evoke visual imagery of an elaborate traditional theater setting.
During the tour, we marveled at the ornate proscenium that framed the ancient stage.
Pro Tip 2/3Theatrical Focus
'Proscenium' indicates the specific area where theatrical action is emphasized.
Her monologue took place on the proscenium, capturing the audience's full attention.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Experience
Understanding 'proscenium' can enhance appreciation of theater culture and history.
The guide explained how the proscenium's design contributed to the golden era of theater.
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Building a theater that...
proscenium thrust flat floor arena traverse you name it all they needed is labor well something happened in fact something happened to all institutions around the world it started to become hard to rate this operational costs operational budgets so they stopped having inexpensive labor and eventually
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Joshua Prince-Ramus:...
That meant that they were able to perform, as long as they had labor they were able to go between proscenium, thrust, flat floor, arena, traverse, you name it. All they needed was labor. Well, something happened. In fact something happened to all institutions around the world.
Video examples
Building a theater that...
proscenium thrust flat floor arena traverse you name it all they needed is labor well something happened in fact something happened to all institutions around the world it started to become hard to rate this operational costs operational budgets so they stopped having inexpensive labor and eventually
Video examples
Joshua Prince-Ramus:...
That meant that they were able to perform, as long as they had labor they were able to go between proscenium, thrust, flat floor, arena, traverse, you name it. All they needed was labor. Well, something happened. In fact something happened to all institutions around the world.
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Quote examples
Mark Rylance
English Actor
I learnt so much wit, really, from the Globe audiences. If you can make a circle, even in a proscenium theater, if you can get a circular energy going, so that all these people are involved with it and present, then there is something curious that happens with the imagination.
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Robert Preston
American Actor
The camera lens or the television camera is still just a proscenium arch. And as a great old character actor once said to me, wherever you're acting, you reach up and take hold of the proscenium arch, and you pull it down around your shoulders.
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Nickolas Ashford
American Musician
It's quite different, the kind of love you get in a smaller club and the kind of love you get on a big proscenium stage. It's quite different. I like both of them, but I'm in love with the smaller, intimate club.
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John Berger
English Artist
A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. It's like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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George Lucas
American Director
All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology.
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Ralph Gibson
One of the reasons I love to come to Paris is because the decorative arts are so refined that I am always walking through one proscenium into another frame.
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Walter Cronkite
American Journalist
I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life.
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Billy Connolly
Scottish Comedian
Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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Mark Rylance
English Actor
I learnt so much wit, really, from the Globe audiences. If you can make a circle, even in a proscenium theater, if you can get a circular energy going, so that all these people are involved with it and present, then there is something curious that happens with the imagination.
Quote examples
Robert Preston
American Actor
The camera lens or the television camera is still just a proscenium arch. And as a great old character actor once said to me, wherever you're acting, you reach up and take hold of the proscenium arch, and you pull it down around your shoulders.
Quote examples
Nickolas Ashford
American Musician
It's quite different, the kind of love you get in a smaller club and the kind of love you get on a big proscenium stage. It's quite different. I like both of them, but I'm in love with the smaller, intimate club.
Quote examples
John Berger
English Artist
A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. It's like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
Quote examples
George Lucas
American Director
All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology.
Quote examples
Ralph Gibson
One of the reasons I love to come to Paris is because the decorative arts are so refined that I am always walking through one proscenium into another frame.
Quote examples
Walter Cronkite
American Journalist
I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life.
Quote examples
Billy Connolly
Scottish Comedian
Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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