Word: prosceniums
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Finally there was the seemingly insurmountable problem of the Vivian Beaumont Theater itself. Designed with flexibility in mind, it has proved to be remarkably rigid, combining the bad qualities of both theater in the round and traditional proscenium stage-with the advantages of neither...
Mamet began writing and directing at Vermont's Goddard College; after graduation he became an actor. But, he confesses, "I was terrible, and it bothered me a lot." He was bothered enough to try the other side of the proscenium in 1971, when he started the St. Nicholas Theater Company. He and his co-founders transferred the project from New England to Chicago three years later. Mamet now divides his time between that city and New York...
Donald Soule designed the plush Victorian brocade-and-high-ceilinged set in addition to the lighting. Escpecially nice are the proscenium of painted mauve curtains and the warm morning light during the breakfast scenes, which balances the ponderous family portraits and patterned wallpaper. Elaborate period costumes are by Marcia Dixcy Carr...
This past weekend I saw some of the funnythings performed again at the Mass College of Art, and, distanced by the proscenium, they seemed to make sense. Or perhaps the familiarity of the proscenium covered for my confusion...
...evolution from the proscenium arch of the playwright to the zygomatic arch of the popular anthropologist, Robert Ardrey, 63, has never lost his instinct for drama. African Genesis, The Territorial Imperative and The Social Contract swept through millions of years, the disappearance of continents and the draining of oceans. Entrances and exits involved crushes of phyla and species. The first ape man dropped from the trees to begin his long journey toward sapience...