THTR1170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Proscenium, Noh, Handrail
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The proscenium arch was the most common form of theatre building in the 18th, 19th and 20th. The term proscenium arch , or pros to use a common theatre abbreviation, is also now used to describe any staging configuration in which the audience faces the stage straight-on regardless of whether or not there is a physical arch . Most theatre"s built from the 1950s onwards have an open arch which is essentially an undecorated aperture in a wall. Audience faces the stage and wings sit by the left and right sides of the stages, used to store scenery, effects and act as waiting areas for actors. Meanwhile, the noh stage is an extremely simple space in which there is no curtain between the playing area and the audience.
