Proscenium

Quick meaning: Proscenium is a noun meaning (in a modern theater) The stage area between the curtain and the orchestra.

Meaning

(in a modern theater) The stage area between the curtain and the orchestra.

More Meanings

1. (in an ancient theater) The stage area immediately in front of the scene building.
2. A proscenium arch.
3. (in an ancient theater) The row of columns at the front of the scene building, at first directly behind the circular orchestra but later upon a stage.

Example Sentences

The front of the scene-building and of the parascenia came to be decorated with a row of columns, the proscenium (πρό, "before"+σκηνή).

It looks like a film, a meticulous, detailed, visually balanced wide-screen Wes Anderson one. There’s no proscenium, no stage, no wings, no audience.

Screamers trumpeted from the roof of the supermarket, white storks rattled their bills as their surveyed the town from the proscenium of the filling-station.

Word Forms

• prosceniums
• proscenia

Synonyms for proscenium

Depending on context, synonyms include forestage.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include forestage, postscenium, understage, upstage, downstage, intermede.

Related Dictionary Tools