Word: proscenium
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...East Berlin's Turandot, staged by Felsenstein Protégé Joachim Herz but supervised by the boss himself, stressed naturalistic stage effects, an infinite concern for dramatic detail, and acting of startling realism. The curtain rose on an iron grille stretched across the proscenium, representing the palace gate separating the chorus of rag-clad Chinese from the palace courtyard, where one of Turandot's unsuccessful suitors was about to be executed. The mob faced the audience in silence for several seconds, hissed in hypnotic fascination at their gruesome vision. Only then did the music begin. Throughout...
...conception of the ideal theatre, asserted, "I think we've solved a problem that the drama people in New York said couldn't be solved. We were foolish enough to try it, and we have succeeded." Stubbins has designed plans for the first theatre to contain both a proscenium and a theatre in the round...
...main stage will be 35 feet deep with a proscenium height of 25 feet. The proscenium itself can be widened to 60 feet, while the stage house has a total height of 65 feet. Flexibility remains most important; "We have played down audience comfort and sight lines somewhat to make the auditorium more flexible," Myer commented...
...Aaron stated. Current plans call for a 400-seat, air-cooled structure. He added that, while the final stage arrangement will depend on the site selected, the directors hope to achieve the most flexible theatre possible. "We hope to be able to use the stage with and without a proscenium," he said...
Stinson's concept of flexibility includes "flying sets" and a stage easily alterable "to permit proscenium, apron, and combination staging." He also proposed "a complete shop and cooperation between all theatre groups in lighting, props, sets, and costumes...