Word: prosceniums
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...society is suffering and drying up for lack of a creed," he soon found himself saying. "The theater will take the place of the church . . . That's what I learned working with the Russians last summer. We've got to go further than they went. Abolish the proscenium arch...
...would make a fine model for all sprites, land, air or sca-borne. When she makes her third act entrance in several feet of fish net, some strategic sea weed and perhaps a trifling bathing suit, she is the most charming picture I've ever seen surrounded by a proscenium arch. She is magnificent...
...advantages that have accrued to us"). But he insists that "it is the essence of Shakespeare that today fascinates audiences, who, for the first time, are getting through the polite surface of 19th century showmanship into the heart of the dramas." Convinced that the whole theory of the proscenium arch that has dominated the English-speaking stage since the Restoration is beginning to crumble, Atkinson urges that "not only Shakespeare but modern playwriting needs the poetic freedom of some sort of platform stage." He warns: "Anyone who now builds a theater tied permanently to a proscenium stage is likely...
...central room contains display cases, and is intended to give the impression of looking through the proscenium arch of a theatre...
...composers whose names adorn the proscenium arch of the Metropolitan Opera, Christoph Willibald Gluck is the oldest (1714-87), the least honored, the least sung.* Four of his 42 operas have been performed at the Met, but only at very rare intervals. Last week Gluck's Alcestis got a performance that restored some of the proper shine to his name...