Word: proscenium
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...Proscenium Arch. Giacometti never ceased to be rebuked by reality and did not wish to be relieved of its castigation. That is why the figure sculptures - so hallucinatory in their leanness, like knotty streaks of bronze in space - nevertheless took months of work in the presence of a model (his brother Diego or his wife Annette) ruthlessly immobilized in the studio...
...squeaking stairs, hysterical phone calls and many looks of lingering menace. Screenwriter Williamson's script, adapted from the Broadway play by Lucille Fletcher (who wrote another classic of the genre, Sorry, Wrong Number, a few decades back), retains all the trappings of a three-act thriller except the proscenium...
Ballet is a highly artificial art here are people, wearing tights and tu-tus, dancing the story of something like a princess in an enchanted forest), and it needs the artificial atmosphere and remove of the proscenium stage for the audience to be able to suspend its disbelief. In this film, the ballet segments have been made in a studio eliminating the authentic sense of baliet as it is performed in front of a live audience), and the camera is placed so close to the dancers that any illusion of reality is lost. As a result, in La Sylphide about...
...Mini-Met stage is one that many Girl Scout theater troupes might find modest. Housed beneath the Vivian Beaumont Theater in the Lincoln Center complex, the Forum is a tiny arena theater seating 280. There is no proscenium and no orchestra pit; the musicians, instrumentalists as well as chorus, must squeeze onto a narrow balcony suspended above the stage...
...this film adaptation, the proscenium arches of the London and New York stage versions seem to be looming just out of camera range. Mankiewicz is a film maker who has always taken a bemused interest in the folk ways of the theater. He wrote and directed All About Eve, a film to which he pays sly homage here, and he has chosen to accentuate the script's staginess instead of trying to break...